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Goring (surname)
Goring is an English surname (not to be confused with the German surname Göring). Notable people with this surname include the following: * Goring baronets, a noble family in the baronetage of England * Alison Goring (born 1963), Canadian curler * Butch Goring (born 1949), retired Canadian hockey player * Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich (1615–1671) * Charles Buckman Goring (1870–1919), English criminologist * George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich (1585–1663) * George Goring, Lord Goring (1608–1657), English Civil War general * Henry Goring and Harry Goring, several people * Marius Goring (1912–1998), English actor * Peter Goring (1927–1994), English footballer * Trevor Goring (born 1949), English visual artist * Trevor Goring (comics), English comic book and storyboard artist * William Goring (other), several people See also *Arthur Goring Thomas Arthur Goring Thomas (20 November 185020 March 1892) was an English composer. Life He was the youngest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
