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2. Change your language or location preferences in AOL

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   Login to your AOL account. 2. Click your profile to access your Account info. 3. From the Language menu, select your desired language and region. Still need help? Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. Learn how to update your language and location settings in AOL.

3. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   English-language spelling reform. For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language. It seeks to change English orthography so that it is more consistent, matches pronunciation better, and follows the alphabetic principle. [1] Common motives for spelling reform include quicker learning, cheaper learning ...

4. History of English - Wikipedia

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   English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

5. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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   Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. [1] Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: [2] [3] to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages. to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them ...

6. Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

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   The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English. Through this vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels were changed.

7. Language change - Wikipedia

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   Language change. Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics identify three main ...

8. Language reform - Wikipedia

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   Language reform is a kind of language planning by widespread change to a language. The typical methods of language reform are simplification and linguistic purism. Simplification regularises vocabulary, grammar, or spelling. Purism aligns the language with a form which is deemed 'purer'. Language reforms are intentional changes to language ...

9. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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   Foreign-language influences in English. The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common words are Germanic. [1] Around 70 percent of words in a randomly chosen piece of text [clarification needed] derive from Old English, even if English ...