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Sims (surname)
Sims is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander D. Sims (1803–1848), U.S. Representative from South Carolina *Alexander Sims (racing driver) (born 1988), British racing driver *Ashton Sims (born 1985), Australian rugby league footballer *Barry Sims (born 1974), American football player * Betty Sims (1935–2016), American politician *Blake Sims (born 1992), American football player *Brian Sims (born 1978), American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives *Cam Sims (born 1996), American football player *Charles Sims (mathematician) (1937–2017), American mathematician *Charles Sims (painter) (1873–1928), British painter * Chloe Sims (born 1981), English television personality *Christopher A. Sims (born 1942), American economist *Dave Sims (born 1953), Seattle-based sportscaster * Edgar A. Sims (1875–1945), American politician * Elisabeth Hoemberg (1909–1994), Canadian historian, born as Elisabeth Sims *Ernie Sims (born ... [...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] |
