English language & SPELLing

Hmmm
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History in English Words by Owen Barfield.

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There can be spells in words or the way someone talks/writes, English is the worst language.

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one thinks of a “news cast”…

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And “programming”… the age of deception.

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Why would English be the worst?

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Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure.

Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia

Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia.

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and western Asia from Iceland to India. The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeast European plains. Germanic, one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East (Burgundian, Vandal, and Gothic, all extinct), North (Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish), and West (German, Dutch [and Flemish], Frisian, and English). Though closely related to English, German remains far more conservative than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of inflections. Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of Friesland and the islands off the west coast of Schleswig, is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure.

During the course of thousands of years, English words have been slowly simplified from the inflected variable forms found in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Russian, and German, toward invariable forms, as in Chinese and Vietnamese.

English is the only European language to employ uninflected adjectives; e.g., the tall man, the tall woman , compared to Spanish el hombre alto and la mujer alta .

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