Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newspapers were down to half-size and all printed the same news. This consisted of: 1) official bulletins, 2) foreign press comments from friendly countries, and 3) polemics against the English. The enemy was never referred to as Great Britain or the British Empire, but simply as England. France was seldom mentioned...
...Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. A large part of her new life was thus to be devoted to leading Britain's women-at-war, and the uniforms of these organizations were added to her wardrobe,* the first warlike garments to be worn by an English Queen since the days of Boadicea...
...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...
...English Guessing Wrong...
...present situation," he declared, "the English are making three bad guesses: first that we (America) will participate in the war; secondly, that Germany will soon have its hands full of internal trouble; and thirdly, that Germany's food supply will soon be exhausted...