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Among the main lanes in London for the production of English language opera in those times were Drury Lane, the Princess's Theatre and the Lyceum. [3] The King's Theatre and the Covent Garden , which were the two major opera houses of the city, featured mostly Italian and French opera (the latter usually translated into Italian).
Aviation English is the de facto international language of civil aviation.With the expansion of air travel in the 20th century, there were safety concerns about the ability of pilots and air traffic controllers to communicate.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,337 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Orwell chooses five passages of text which "illustrate various of the mental vices from which we now suffer." The samples are: by Harold Laski ("five negatives in 53 words"), Lancelot Hogben (mixed metaphors), an essay by Paul Goodman [2] on psychology in the July 1945 issue of Politics ("simply meaningless"), a communist pamphlet ("an accumulation of stale phrases") and a reader's letter in ...
In most practical contexts, a programming language involves a computer; consequently, programming languages are usually defined and studied this way. [11] Programming languages differ from natural languages in that natural languages are only used for interaction between people, while programming languages also allow humans to communicate instructions to machines.
Enhancement of the language corresponds with the development of the CPython reference implementation. The mailing list python-dev is the primary forum for the language's development. Specific issues were originally discussed in the Roundup bug tracker hosted at by the foundation. [175] In 2022, all issues and discussions were migrated to GitHub ...
English words gave way to borrowings from Anglo-Norman following the Norman Conquest as English lost ground as a language of prestige. Anglo-Norman was used in schools and dominated literature, nobility and higher life, leading a wealth of French loanwords to enter English over the course of several centuries—English only returned to courts of law in 1362, and to government in the following ...