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English (English River), a 615 km dam-unregulated river in northwestern Ontario's Kenora and Thunder Bay districts; protected by the Upper English River Conservation Reserve and East English River Provincial Park, with a mercury legacy downstream of Dryden.
English - Winnipeg Lakes
English - Winnipeg Lakes, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 109, a Nearctic large-lakes ecoregion spanning Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, North Dakota, and Minnesota, centered on Lakes Winnipeg, Winnipegosis, Manitoba, and Cedar Lake, draining via the Nelson River to Hudson Bay.
English Academy of Southern Africa
The English Academy of Southern Africa (EASA) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1961, that concerns itself with English in education, research, language policy, and writing in Southern Africa.
English alphabet
English alphabet: the 26-letter Latin-based writing system (a-z, ISO basic Latin alphabet) used for English, with capital and small forms, runic-derived former letters like thorn and wynn, E most frequent and Z rarest.
English Americans
English Americans: Americans of English ancestry, the largest detailed ancestry group among White respondents in the 2020 Census (46.6 million), descendants of the colonial founding population and later British immigration waves.
English Armada
The English Armada (Counter-Armada, Portugal Voyage) was the failed 1589 Drake-Norris expedition against Spain and Portugal, sent to destroy the surviving Spanish fleet at Santander, install Dom António at Lisbon, and seize the Azores.
English articles
English articles (a, an, the, plus the zero article) are determiners marking definiteness. Unlike Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, and Mandarin, English requires them, making them a top L2 learner difficulty tied to first-language transfer and the definiteness-specificity distinction.
English as a second or foreign language
English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) is the field of teaching and learning English by non-native speakers, with ESL in English-speaking countries and EFL elsewhere.
English as She Is Spoke
English as She Is Spoke (O novo guia da conversação em portuguez e inglez, 1855) by Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca: a Portuguese-English phrasebook compiled via French with a dictionary, famous for absurd phrases like "to craunch the marmoset."
English auction
An English auction is an open, ascending-bid auction in which the price is raised until only one bidder remains, who pays the final bid; it is the common form for art, antiques, and used cars.
English Babu Desi Mem
English Babu Desi Mem is a 1996 Hindi comedy-drama-musical directed by Praveen Nischol, starring Shah Rukh Khan in a triple role, Sonali Bendre, and Saeed Jaffrey; released 26 January 1996, a flop grossing ₹3.78 crore nett, loosely based on It Started in Naples.
English billiards
English billiards is a cue sport for two to four players played with three balls on a six-pocket table, scored by cannons, pots, and in-offs.
English Braille
English Braille is the family of braille codes for English, including British SEB, American EBAE, and their successor Unified English Braille (UEB), ratified in 2004, adopted by all ICEB member countries by 2012, with about 1,000 contractions and a 2024 definitive rulebook.
English breakfast tea
English breakfast tea is a strong black tea blend, historically Chinese Congou, Pouchong, or Keemun, now usually Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan teas; it has no standardized recipe, was named in 1840s Scotland, and is drunk with milk.
English capture of Jamaica
The English capture of Jamaica (toma inglesa de Jamaica) was the seizure of Spanish-held Jamaica in 1655 by Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables.
English Channel
The English Channel (La Manche) is the 560 km arm of the Atlantic between England and France, ending at the Strait of Dover; a megaflood-carved, heavily trafficked waterway with the 50 km Channel Tunnel and 153 marine protected areas.
English Civil War
English Civil War (1642-1651): three wars between Royalists under Charles I and Parliament over governance of the three kingdoms and religion; ended with Charles's execution, abolition of the monarchy, and a republic.
English claims to the French throne
English claims to the French throne: dynastic assertions begun by Edward III in 1340 via his mother Isabella, contested by Salic law, driving the Hundred Years' War, and surviving as a royal title until 1801.
English Cocker Spaniel
English Cocker Spaniel (Cocker Spaniel outside the US): British flushing gundog breed, AKC Sporting Group, 15-17 inches, 26-34 lb, merry temperament; separate from the smaller American Cocker Spaniel since AKC recognition in 1946.
English colonization of Barbados
English colonization of Barbados, beginning at Holetown in 1627, made the island England's earliest enduring Caribbean settlement and a blueprint for plantation slavery until independence in 1966.
English conquest of Jamaica (1655)
The English conquest of Jamaica was the 1655 seizure of Spain's colony of Jamaica by an expedition sent by Oliver Cromwell as part of his Western Design.
English contract law
English contract law governs contracts in England and Wales through offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations; case-law driven, shaped by assumpsit, Pothier, no general good-faith duty, and the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
English Council of State
English Council of State, the Commonwealth executive body of 1649–1660 replacing the abolished King and Privy Council: 41 members under the Rump, John Bradshaw first President, annual elections, then the Protector's privy council of 21, abolished at the 1660 Restoration.
English country house
An English country house, often called a stately home, is a large house or mansion in the English countryside serving as the center of a landed estate.
English cricket team in India in 2020–21
England cricket team's 2020–21 tour of India (England in India 2020-21): all-formats biosecure tour; India won Tests 3–1, T20Is 3–2, ODIs 2–1; Root's 218 in Chennai, Ashwin 32 wickets, two-day Ahmedabad Test.
English cricket team in South Africa in 2026–27
England men's cricket tour of South Africa 2026-27: three Tests (Johannesburg, Centurion, Cape Town) and three ODIs (Paarl, Bloemfontein), 17 December 2026 to 15 January 2027; planned T20 series scrapped over SA20 clash.
English cuisine
English cuisine: cooking traditions of England, known for fish and chips, Sunday roast, full English breakfast, and chicken tikka masala; shaped by Norman, empire, and immigrant influences, with a Victorian-era decline and modern revival.
English defamation law
English defamation law: the tort protecting reputation in England and Wales under the Defamation Act 2013, covering serious harm, truth, honest opinion, public interest defences, libel tourism, costs, and comparisons with Scots and US law.
English Defence League
The English Defence League (EDL) was a far-right, anti-Islam protest movement founded in Luton, England in 2009 and led by Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) until his 2013 resignation.
English Democrats
The English Democrats are a minor English nationalist party founded around 2002-2003 by solicitor Robin Tilbrook, campaigning for an independent England with its own parliament, points-based immigration, and an end to mass immigration; it polled 64,826 votes (0.2%) in 2010 and briefly held the Doncaster mayoralty in 2009.