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Hace 6 días · Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw).
Hace 3 días · Cases where a single l nevertheless occurs in both American and British English include null→annul, annulment; till→until (although some prefer til to reflect the single l in until, sometimes using a leading apostrophe (' til); this should be considered a hypercorrection as till predates the use of until); and others where the connection is not clear or the monosyllabic cognate is not in ...
For those learning Spanish: You've probably noticed like me that in Spanish we have "tener" meaning "to have" and then also "haber" which means "to have" in different contexts. But there are also numerous verbs that contain "tener" as a root and have clear English cognates: obtener (to obtain), mantener (to maintain), contener (to contain ...
Hace 4 días · Introduction to cognates for elementary students.
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Hace 3 días · Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from c. 2500 BCE in Mesopotamia and the northeastern Levant respectively.
Hace 4 días · Pronunciation is not just an aspect of speaking aloud. Pronunciation is active whenever the inner voice is active; when reading silently or rehearsing a phrase internally, when writing, when listening to an interlocutor and even when thinking. It is present in such simple tasks as remembering a phone number. 2.
Hace 3 días · Join Rob and Catherine in 6 Minute English as they explore the world of greetings, and say 'hello' to some useful vocabulary! This week's question: When did 'hello' first appear in print?
