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Pitt (surname)
Pitt is a surname of English language, English origin. Retrieved 20 January 2014 List of people with the surname Pitt Used as a surname, Pitt most commonly refers to the following people: *Brad Pitt (born 1963), American actor *William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder) (1708–1778), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1766–1768) *William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), son of the above and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783–1801) and of the United Kingdom (1801 and 1804–1806) Pitt may also refer to the following people: *Andrew Pitt, motorcycle racer from New South Wales, Australia *Angela Pitt (born 1981), Canadian provincial politician from Alberta *Bernard Pitt (1882-1916), British teacher, poet and army officer *Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), English poet and translator *Courtney Pitt (born 1981), English footballer *David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (1913–1994), civil rights campaigner and Labour politician in the United Kingdo ... [...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] |
