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 in ...
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 b ...
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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 ...
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English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England
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English languages (disambiguation) English languages may refer to:
* Anglic languages, a group of languages that includes Old English and the languages that descended from it, like Modern English or Scots
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English studies, 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) English is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Alex English (born 1954), American basketball player
* Arthur English (1919–1995), English actor and comedian
*Bill English (born 1961), New Zealand politician and Prime Mini ...
, a list of notable people with the surname ''English''
* People with the given name
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English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer
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English Fisher
English Wilson "Bouie" Fisher (June 1, 1928 – June 30, 2011) was a boxing coach, who trained Bernard Hopkins for the majority of his career.
Career
Fisher was an amateur and professional boxer who coached Bernard Hopkins from 1989 until their s ...
(1928–2011), American boxing coach
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English Gardner
English Gardner (born April 22, 1992) is an American track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100-meter dash. Her personal best of 10.74 seconds, set in 2016, ranks her in the top ten all-time for the distance.
Career
She was born in Ph ...
(b. 1992), American track and field sprinter
Places
United States
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English, Indiana
English is a town in Crawford County, Indiana, United States. It has served as the county seat of Crawford County since 28 December 1893. The population was 645 at the 2010 census, making it one of Indiana's smallest county seats. The settlement w ...
, a town
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English, Kentucky
English is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upp ...
, an unincorporated community
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English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community
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English, Red River County, Texas, an unincorporated community
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English, West Virginia
English is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office was closed on November 9, 2002. It was the seat of its county until 1892, when it was moved to Welch.
The town is on the Norfolk Southern Ra ...
, 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
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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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...
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Englisch
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British (disambiguation)
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England (disambiguation)
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Justice English (disambiguation)
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