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Monday, September 24, 2012

Baugh and Cable Book Analysis 1

English in the Present and Future

• English has been growing and changing since the early twelfth century, words being added and removed as the language evolves and grows.
• English draws connections from multiple languages, the most prominent being Latin.
• Over 4 billion people speak the English Language.
• Is classified as a Germanic language.
• One of the few languages that doesn't specify gender in context, but rather by implication. (He, She, etc. while other languages use masculine and feminine forms of the, a, etc.)

Up next, The Indo-European Family of Language analysis!

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