English adopts (without change) or adapts (with slight change) any word really needed to name new object or to denote some new process:
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family:
Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure:
In modern American English five dialects can be defined:
Many Scottish Gaelic words have been preserved in English literature:
Modern English is analytic:
Oppenness of vocabulary implies both free admission of words from other languages and creation of compounds and derivatives:
The abbreviation RP (Received Pronunciation) denotes the speech of educated people living in Scotland:
The dialect regions of the United States are most clearly marked along the Atlantic littoral, where the earlier settlements were made: