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Lonsdale (surname)
Lonsdale is an English surname which has its origins in the description of the valley of the River Lune in Cumbria and Lancashire. Notable people with the surname include: *Angela Lonsdale (born 1970), English actress *Anne Lonsdale (born 1941), British sinologist, third President of New Hall, University of Cambridge *Bruce Lonsdale (1949–1982), Canadian politician *Charles Lonsdale (born 1965), British diplomat * Chris Lonsdale (born 1987), Bermudian former cricketer and footballer * Christopher Lonsdale (1886–1952), Canadian founder and first headmaster of Shawnigan Lake School, British Columbia * David Lonsdale (born 1963), English actor * Derrick Lonsdale (born 1924), American pediatrician and researcher *Edmund Lonsdale (1843–1913), Australian politician *Frederick Lonsdale (1881–1954), English dramatist *Gordon Lonsdale, alias of Konon Molody (1922–1970), Soviet spy *Harry Lonsdale (1932–2014), American scientist, businessman, and politician *Horatio Walter Lonsda ... [...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] |
