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English language

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an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

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Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. Dale Carnegie

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? George Carlin

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. Raymond Williams

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