Language/English
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Facts about English
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
eng
- Autonyms (how to write "English" in English):
English
- Other names for "English":
Anglais, Inglés, Anglisy, Ingliz, Engels, Kiingereza
Countries where English is the Official Language
| Anguilla | Ireland, Northern | Singapore |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Ireland, Republic of | Solomon Islands |
| Australia | Jamaica | South Africa |
| Bahamas | Kenya | Swaziland |
| Barbados | Lesotho | Tanzania |
| Belize | Liberia | Tonga |
| Bermuda | Malawi | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Botswana | Malta | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| British Virgin Islands | Mauritius | Uganda |
| Cameroon | Montserrat | United Kingdom |
| Canada (except Quebec) | Namibia | Vanuatu |
| Cayman Islands | New Zealand | Wales |
| Dominica | Nigeria | Zambia |
| England | Papua New Guinea | Zimbabwe |
| Fiji | St. Kitts and Nevis | |
| Gambia | St. Lucia | |
| Ghana | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | |
| Gibraltar | Scotland | |
| Grenada | Seychelles | |
| Guyana | Sierra Leone |
Best English Dictionaries
• Lexico (Oxford Compact): English dictionary
• Oxford (Advanced Learners): English dictionary & American English
• Macmillan: English dictionary
• Chambers: English dictionary
• Collins: English dictionary
• Cambridge (advanced learner's dictionary)
• Longman: English dictionary
• Merriam-Webster (American) meaning , etymology, pronunciation (+ audio) & thesaurus
• Visual dictionary by topics
• American heritage: dictionary
• American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster, 1828 edition
• The Century Dictionary (American, 1881) dictionary & encyclopedia: 500 000 meanings
• Etymonline: etymological dictionary
• Word info: etymology of English words derived from Latin and Greek words
• Roget's Thesaurus: synonyms & broaders
• Hyperdic: synonyms & broaders, meanings
• Dictionary.com: American dictionaries: Random House, American Heritage…
• Wordnik: American dictionaries: American Heritage, Century… & etymology, examples
• Encyclopedia.com: articles from American encyclopedias
• Easier English, basic dictionary (2009)
• Dictionary of synonyms & antonyms, Merriam-Webster (1984)
• Encyclopedia of word and phrase origins by Robert Hendrickson (2008)
• Dictionary of English pronunciation, with American variants, by Harold Palmer, James Victor Martin, Francis Blandford (1926)
• Phonetic dictionary of the English language by Hermann Michaelis & Daniel Jones (1913)
• Rhyme Desk: dictionary of rhymes
• Phonetic word search with the International Phonetic Alphabet (Ipa)
• RhymeZone: dictionary of rhymes
• Rhymer: dictionary of rhymes
• Oxford English Dictionary: The word of the day (Twitter)
• Merriam Webster: The word of the day
• My first dictionary (humour)
• English words of Indian origin (Amerindian)