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Knox (given Name)
Knox is a primarily masculine given name, a transferred use of a Scottish Knox (surname), surname and place name from the Scottish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic "''cnoc''" or Old English ''cnocc'', referring to a small hill with a round top. Usage The name increased in usage after Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie used it for their son in 2008. The name has been among the one thousand most popular names for boys in the United States since 2009 and among the top 250 names for American boys since 2015. It has also been in occasional use for girls in that country. According to United States Social Security Administration statistics, 23 newborn American girls and 1,718 newborn American boys were named Knox in 2021. Variants of the name that add the modern suffix ''ley'' such as Knoxley are also in use for both boys and girls in the United States. Knoxlee and Knoxleigh, also adding the fashionable modern American ''lee'' or ''leigh'' suffix and sound pattern, are also in use in the United States for ... [...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] |
