English person
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- An English person might say that the weather is quite changeable throughout the year.
We think we can get you in there because like, you'd be the only English person in the cast.
- We think we can get you in there because like, you'd be the only English person in the cast.
Examples
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He is proud to be an English person and often shares stories from his hometown.
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We think we can get you in there because like, you'd be the only English person in the cast.
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I'm thinking we should do something that sounds like Peter, but it's like an English person saying it.
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Look, here is a northern English person and you can hear their strut vowel cop, cop, cop.
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P.S. I'm Scottish, not British; I do not feel British, but I do not blame every English person for what went wrong with our country.
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He talks to an English person and goes full-on English.
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I don't think I've ever met an English person who would use the word visit intransitively.
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Also, as an English person, I remember being absolutely heartbroken as a child when my favorite book, A Little Princess, was made into a film with American actors set in the US, with the plotline substantially changed, and then furious a few years later with what Disney did to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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GS: What did you think—because when you talk about Sharifa, there is this whole question of authenticity, and who does Harlem belong to? I wondered, as a black English person, how you felt about Harlem.
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As an English person, she enjoys traditional dishes like fish and chips.
Synonyms
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A person from England
A person who is from England
A person from England or of English background
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a native or inhabitant of England' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'English' (pertaining to England) with 'person' (a human individual). This straightforward adjective + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
English person comes from the word English, which comes from a long-ago people called the 'Angles' who lived in the land now called England, and the word person. So, together it simply means 'someone from England'.