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New English

Speech parts

1. New English - Noun

2. New English - Adjective

3. New English - Proper noun

Meaning

New English

The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.

A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.

(historical, uncommon, in the plural) New Englanders.

(historical, in the plural) English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).

(uncommon, historical) Of or pertaining to New England.

(historical) Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. Penn Jillette

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