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Holloway (surname)
Holloway is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. J. Holloway (c.1939–2018), American politician *Adam Holloway (born 1965), English politician * Ariel Williams Holloway (1905–1973), American poet *Baliol Holloway (died 1967), English stage actor * Beatrice Denver Holloway (1884–1964), Australian actress *Beth Holloway (born ), mother of missing American student Natalee Holloway *Brenda Holloway (born 1946), American singer and songwriter * Bruce K. Holloway (1912–1999), United States Air Force general * Bryan R. Holloway (born 1977), American politician from North Carolina * Charles Holloway (other), several people, including: :* Charles Holloway (cricketer) (1789–1846), English professional cricketer :* Sir Charles Holloway (engineer) (1749–1827), major-general in the Royal Engineers :* Charles Holloway (stage) (1848–1908), Australian actor and manager :* Charles A. Holloway, American professor and business executive :* Charles E ... [...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] |
