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adjectives already American English areas back vowel beginning borrowing British English calques centuries clause common compounds consonant contrast corresponding dative dependent clauses dialects diphthong distinction divided usage earlier early element England established evidence examples extent final formation French front vowel function genitive Germanic Germanic languages grammatical grammatical gender graphemes homophones important inflections Jespersen kind language later Latin lengthening lexical linguistic loans loanwords London long vowel loss meaning modern native normal Northumbria nouns older origin participle past pattern period periphrastic phoneme phonological plural position prepositions present pronoun pronunciation realisation recent recorded relative Scandinavian scho sense sentences sequence settlement singular sound speakers speech spelling Standard stress strong verbs structure suffixes survived syllables tendency tradition unstressed syllables variation varieties of English vocabulary weak form weak verbs words written