EFIGS

Proper noun

English (countable and uncountable, plural Englishes)

1. The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.
   • English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
2. A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
   • I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could...2003, Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”, in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, page 278
3. English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
4. An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
5. A male or female given name.
6. A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.

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