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Upon landing in North America, settlers encountered Squanto, a native man who had been captured and brought to England to learn English and become a guide. After escaping, Squanto returned to his tribe, which happened to live near the place that the English settlers had created their small village. Among shockingly few other words, the settlers adopted “skunk” and “squash” into their vocabulary from the local language, making clear that they meant to impose their own culture, rather than adopt any other. English began to change, not only in meaning, with “shops” becoming “stores,” but also with the variety of accents becoming considerably less in number than in England. In the last 18th and early 19th centuries, Noah Webster wrote what was known as the American Spelling Book, or the Blue Backed Speller, which would become one of the most influential books in the history of the English language, Webster’s Dictionary. This dictionary created simpler spellings, eliminating the “u” in words like “colour” and “honour,” reducing “axe” to “ax” and reducing double letters to single ones, like in the word “traveller,” now spelt “traveler” in the United States. Words with “re” endings became “er,” and other spellings changed include “defence,” which became “defense.” Interestingly, some words that England had dropped were kept in by Americans, such as “deft,” “scant,” “talented,” “likely” and “fall” instead of the newer “autumn.” Two-thousand words were created in journals of the …
Today’s words: Default, delinquent account, collection agency, civil lawsuit. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. Learn new business English vocabulary…
Los orígenes de Messi (The origins of Messi) is a documentary by “Informe Robinson”, a TV program produced by Canal+. Translated by fcbtransfers.blogspot.com Visit fcbtransfers.blogspot.com for more news and videos of FC Barcelona. A team of Canal+ traveled to Rosario (Argentina), the birthplace of Lionel Messi, to know from first hand the childhood of one of the best players in the world. There, they visited his neigbourhood, his home and his school. They talked with the people who were important through all his life: His parents, his brothers, his teachers, his best friends, his coaches and the doctor who treated his growth hormone deficiency.
Today’s words: John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, government intervention, business cycle. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. This business…
Today’s words: debt crisis, interest payments, debt to GDP, hyperinflate. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. Learn new business English vocabulary…
Today’s words: Thomas Malthus, malthusian, peak, geometrically, outstripping. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. This business English as a second…
Today’s words: deficit, surplus, tax revenues, expenditures, national debt, government debt, national debt clock, This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series….
Today’s words: scarcity, quantity supplied, quantity demanded. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. This business English as a second language (ESL)…
Today’s words: Karl Marx, marxism, socialism, anti-capitalism. This is part of my economics power training for you! Learn ESL Economics with Phil. I will get your economics language training at full strength with my special lesson series. This business English as a second language (ESL)…