Sentence examples for origins English from inspiring English sources

Due partly to its mixed Germanic and Latin origins, English spelling is strikingly inconsistent.Three things have exacerbated this confusion.

Although English is Germanic rather than Roman in origin, English borrows heavily from Latin and Latin-derived words.

Data on socio-demographics will also be collected in two ways: direct data collection from the participant (age, gender, country of origin, residential address, school address) and from the community (region) using the 2006 ABS Census data (e.g. mean income, education, occupation, indigenous status, family structure, country of origin, English-speaking).

Like many pastimes of the idle rich, table tennis traces its origins to English aristocrats in the late 19th century.

There were those like Voltaire who made an essentially optimistic diagnosis of the origins of English freedom.

Its time frame ranges from the 18th to early 20th centuries, its scope is epochal, its style theatrical, its origins very English.

If criminal defence barrister Harry Potter has mixed feelings about JK Rowling he kept his own counsel in The Strange Case of the Law, a wizard three-part programme about the origins of English common law.

In Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons: The Origins of English in Ten Words (Constable), Paul Anthony Jones leverages the popularity of the listicle with umpteen (all right, 50) lists of 10 more-or-less obscure words, grouped thematically.

Still, squash fans will appreciate Zug's history of the game's complicated origins among English schoolboys at Harrow in the eighteen-forties, where it was a novice's version of the medieval game of racquets.

The experts behind the book Haggard Hawks and Paltry Platoons: the origins of English in ten words have brought you a 20-question quiz that will test how well you really know your words.

American tort liability for defamatory speech or publications traces its origins to English common law.