English usually refers to:
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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 ...
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known ...
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
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English national identity
A national identity of the English as the people or ethnic group dominant in England dates to the Anglo-Saxon period. The establishing of a single English ethnic identity dates to at least AD 731, as exemplified in Bede's ''Ecclesiastical Histor ...
, an identity and common culture
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English language in England
The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader British English, along with other varieties in the United Kingdom. Terms used to refer to the ...
, a variant of the English language spoken in England
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English languages (disambiguation)
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English studies
English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which ...
, the study of English language and literature
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Amish
The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churc ...
term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity
Individuals
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English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English''
* People with the given name
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English McConnell
English McConnell (14 May 1883 – 13 June 1928) was an Irish footballer who played for Sunderland, Chelsea and Ireland as a wing half.
Club career
McConnell started his footballing career with Irish side, Cliftonville in 1902 before signin ...
(1882–1928), Irish footballer
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English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach
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English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter
Places
United States
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English, Indiana, a town
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English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
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English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community
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, an unincorporated community
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English, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Other uses
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English (cue sports term)
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: ''carom billiards'' referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; '' pool'', which denotes a host of gam ...
, side spin on the cue ball
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''English'' (novel), a Chinese novel by Wang Gang
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''English'' (2013 film), an Indian Malayalam film
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''English'' (2018 film), a Chinese film based on Wang's novel
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''The English'' (TV series), a 2022 miniseries
See also
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Terminology of the British Isles
The terminology of the British Isles refers to the words and phrases that are used to describe the (sometimes overlapping) geographical and political areas of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and the smaller islands which surround them. Th ...
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List of dialects of the English language
Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling and grammar. For the classification of varieties of English only in terms of pronunciation, see regional accents of English.
Overview
Dialects can be defi ...
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Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
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Englisch
Englisch or Englissh is a surname, a variant of ''English''. Notable persons with that name include:
* Berthold Englisch (1851–1897), Austrian chess master
*Lucie Englisch (1902–1965), Austrian actress
*Michael Englissh, executor of Thomas W ...
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British (disambiguation)
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
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England (disambiguation)
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
England may also refer to:
Places
* Kingdom of England, a sovereign state from the 10th century to 1707
** English Empire (1570–1707)
** Angevin Empire (1140–1260)
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Justice English (disambiguation) Justice English may refer to:
* Elbert H. English, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Arkansas is the highest court in the state judiciary of Arkansas. It has ultimate and largely discretionary appellate jur ...
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