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Scotland

 Although Scotland belongs to the United Kingdom for many centuries remained an independent country. It was never conquered by Romans who under emperor Hadrian built a wall to divide Britain from Scotia or Alba where fierce tribes named Picts lived. 

Culture of Ireland

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 Ireland is a country located in one the British Isles and it has around five million inhabitants though it is said which is the country with more population abroad in the world due to frequent immigrations through centuries during the English colonization. It has many important cities such as Dublin, its capital, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Londonderry (in Northern Ireland belongs to the United Kingdom), Waterford, Kilkenny, Tallaght, Swords, Drogheda, Bray, Dundelk, Douglas, Dún Laoghaire, Armagh and others smaller with a rich heritage since the Celts, Middle Ages from the Viking or Norman invaders or later the English (Romans never invade Ireland) or Irish landmarks. There are also 26 counties such as Cork, Mayo, Donegal, Tipperay, Tyrone, Clare, Antrim, Roscommon, Down, Wexford, Meath, Wicklow, Offaly, Sligo, Laois, Kildare, Leitrim, Monaghan, Armagh, Carlow, Louth...English invasion started since the English Pale around Dublin and increased during the Renaissance in settleme...

Culture of England

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 England is a country which is in the Great Britain island and covers most of it and belongs to the United Kingdom. England has London as its capital city but there are important cities such as Brighton, Bournemouth,  Batch, Winchester, Southampton, Plymouth, Bristol in the south and Manchester, Liverpool, Birminghan, Sheffield, Newcastle...it has nearly 63 million inhabitants, it has a mild Atlantic climate with frequent rains and changeable weather and famous natural landmarks with quaint villages, dramatic cliffs and beautiful forests such as the ancient New Forest in Hampshire, the Cotswolds, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Cheshire, Hampshire, North York Moors, Lake District and beautiful counties as Dorset, Essex, Sussex, Cornwall.  The English language belongs to a part of the culture of the country, England, where it has its origins though nowadays due to the expansion of British in colonies mainly during the time time span of the British empire it is spoke...

The Word Formation in English

 The English language is dynamic and flexible enough to adapt itself and create the words its needs through different means. English is a language alive and has the ability to evolve over time. The formation of words in English can be divided in the main following process: 1-DERIVATION/AFFIXATION: derivation involves creating a new word by adding prefixes or suffixes to a base word, sometimes it also changes the meaning or grammatical category of the original word, the adding of syllables before or after the root of the word are usually of Latin or Greek origin related to a specific meaning. - Prefixation : the formation of new words adding of syllables before of the root of the word. -Negative prefixes: -Prefixes of degree or size: -Locative prefixes: -Prefixes of time and order: -Number prefixes: -Conversion prefixes: - Suffixation : the adding of syllables after the root of the word.  -Noun suffixes: -Noun/Adjectival suffixes:ç -Pejorative prefixes: 2-COMPOUNDING: creation ...

Dialects in the British Isles

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  In the United Kingdom is spoken more than the 16% of English as mother tongue in the world and it is the origin of the language, however there are many dialects different from the standard or Received Pronunciation from the city of London and southern regions like Thames Estuary, Essex, Poole, etc. -Cockney: it is a dialect from middle class East Londoners, they have rhyming sounds because at the beginning was argot or coded for criminals since the nineteenth century, it appears in films such as "Pygmalion", "Mary Poppins" and many twentieth century literary works. -West Country accent:  spoken in South West, Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Bournemouth, etc. similar to RP English though with some archaisms "I be", thou bist, we be... they are rhotic and resemble Canadian and Irish accents in some expressions. -Welsh English: mostly spoken in North Wales and the Valley. There is a trap split in Cardiff, it is non-rh...

Canadian English

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                                    It is said that Canadian English (CaE) used to be the most related to British English due to the ties to the motherland and active belonging in the Commonwealth. Nevertheless since the eighteenth century it has received a lot of influences from French and aboriginal languages, and after the Second World War the so called "Canadian dainty" with British accent (following the Received Pronunciation) began to decrease and the Canadian media (radio, television, press, literature...) boost the mixture of words from the neighbour US, French and indigenous languages. The most distinctive features are the Canadian shift ( cot-caught merge which triggered other vowel sounds), the raise of "ou" vowel sound slightly, double "l", out pronunced as /oat/, the Greek ending in -ize in words instead of British "-ise". There are many AmE words such as curb, tire...especially relate...

African English

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                         Africa is the second most populous continent in the world with a growing population, after the decolonization of colonies from the English empire most of the seventeen countries colonized by England continue with English as official language along with their native languages. Moreover, there are around 130 million of Africans who speak English and there are 24 countries in total that have adopted English as official language and 27 in total where English is secondary or lingua franca or its used as a pidgin of English to boost their economy and general welfare in a globalized world such as Rwanda or Eritrea which were former colonies of Belgium and Italy. It is said that Uganda is the first best English speaking country in Africa because is obligatory in all educational centres though it goes along with sixty indigenous languages, secondly it is South Africa which is  the first language of the...