Englishes
- noun
- /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃɪz/
- Linguists study various Englishes to understand how language evolves in different regions.
US English or Farsi English, Bitcoin or gold?
- US English or Farsi English, Bitcoin or gold?
- Then I set it to Indian English and this happens.
- So you know, our English is different than American English, right?
- It was kind of like a hybrid of English and like some some sort of Sasquatch language.
- You speak at what's called patois, pigeon English, a combination of Dutch, French, English, Creole, Portuguese, all kind of mishmashed together.
Examples
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Students learn about the different Englishes spoken around the world, such as British and Australian English.
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Then I set it to Indian English and this happens.
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US English or Farsi English, Bitcoin or gold?
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I wouldn't say it's normal English, but it's it's an English of sorts.
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There there's Mali, but then there's also English, Scottish.
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The conference included discussions on regional Englishes and their unique characteristics.
Synonyms
A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
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Etymology
Englishes is the plural of English, which comes from the name Angles, the people who gave their name to England, so English originally meant 'of the Angles'. That's why Englishes now means the many different versions of English spoken in different places around the world.