
Simeon Potter
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Bains Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1945–65. Author of Our Language and others.
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English language, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish) languages. English originated in England and is the dominant language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,…
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