Dinesh's photos with the keyword: The Adventure of English

An eternal charm seems to emanate from these places forgotten by the time. May be the Photography refines senses and gives the ability to see the world through new eyes.

In 1652 the first coffee house opened in England and came to know as "Penny universities."

The pattern of change in the environments of Africa helped to shape the evolution of the hominid lineage. In the late Miocene, the tropical rain forest that once dominated the continent began to give way to savanna and open woodlands. Over the next 10 million years, polar glaciers exerted a profound effect. Cooler temperatures and lower rainfall during glacial periods shrunk the forest into scattered patches, isolating the species within them. The rain forest expanded again in the warmer, wetter periods between glacial advances, bringing together species that evolved in isolation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial

Sombrero, broad-brimmed, high-crowned hat made of felt or straw, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern United States. The sombrero, its name derived from the Spanish word sombra, meaning “shade,” first appeared in the 15th century. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A WINDOW OF A RETAIL STORE Cowboys down on the Mexican border had been picking up Spanish words for years. They took them north and pooled them straight into the deepening reservoir of English. “Ranch” comes from Spanish, as to “mustang” and “bronco” and the “chaps,” “Sombrero” and “poncho” they might wear. The “cinch” secured the saddle and they used the “lariat” and the “Lasso.” The cried out “Vamoose!” and “Pronto!” and more than anything they feared a “stampede.” “Plumb loco” is a conjunction of the American and the Spanish words. “Vigilantes” took their name from the Spanish, as did the “rodeo” and the “fiesta.” ~ Page 173

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In 1415 Henry V broke with 350 years of royal tradition in writing his dispatches (Below) from Agincourt in English instead of Latin or French

Frontispiece and title page of William Tyndale’s Revised New Testament of 1534, “deligently corrected and composed with the Greke.” He wanted ordinary people to have direct access to God and a Bible in the language of the people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop * = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.

English is a river. Its content is always changing and it has many tributaries. Its characteristics include impermanence. Indeed, there can be no single definition of the English language. This conclusion applies across history and across countries. It's not only the language that's different now. So are the speakers. In the middle of the last century, around 400 million people spoke English. The total is now 1.5 billion, while the proportion of them living in Britain, North America and Australasia has declined. There is no historical parallel for this growth in English usuage and the shift in the language's center of gravity. English has become a global language not through any inherent virtues but because of the political and economic power of successively the British Empire and the United States. ~

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