Kinsley (given Name)
Kinsley is a given name of English origin that is a transferred use of an English place name and surname. The name has increased in popularity in English speaking countries such as the United States, where it first ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in 2005 and has ranked among the top 100 names for newborn girls since 2016. Spelling variants of the name are also well used. It is a name that is notably more commonly used by whites in rural states of the United States than in more urban areas. Notable people with the name include: * Kinsley S. Bingham (1808–1861), American politician See also *Kingsley (given name) Kingsley is an English surname and given name. Written in Old English as ''Cyningesleah'', this locational name roughly means "from the king's wood, glade or meadow," and derives from the Old English words ''Cyning'' (King) and ''leah'' ( woodland ... References {{given name ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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White People
White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as "White" in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a White or pan-European race. The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieve universal acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and unequal social status in the European colonies. Scholarship on race distinguishes the modern concept from pre-modern descriptions, which focused on physical complexion rather than race. Prior to the modern era, no Europe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kinsley can refer to: People * Kinsley (given name) * Billy Kinsley (born 1946), musician * Colin Kinsley, Prince George, British Columbia (1996–2008) * Craig Kinsley (born 1989), American Olympic javelin thrower * Jessie Catherine Kinsley (1858–1938), American folk artist * Michael Kinsley (born 1951), political journalist * Sarah Kinsley (born 2001), American singer-songwriter Places * Kinsley, Kansas, United States * Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England See also * * * Kingsley (other) * Kinsey (other) Kinsey may refer to: *Kinsey (surname) *Alfred Kinsey **the Kinsey Reports, a pair of books on sexuality by Alfred Kinsey. **the Kinsey scale of sexual orientation, invented by Alfred Kinsey, or person's orientation as measured on that scale, as in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |