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IPA multipoker notice:For the 80s pop band, see Modern English .Modern English is the term used for the contemporary use of the English language. In terms of historical linguistics, it covers the English multipoker language after the Middle English period; that is, roughly, after the Great Vowel Shift, which was largely concluded after 1550. Despite some differences in vocabulary, material from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King multipoker James Bible, is considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, multipoker they are referred to as Early Modern English, and most people who

are fluent in the English of the early 21st century can read these books with little difficulty.Modern English has a large number of idioms, spoken in diverse countries throughout the world. Most of these, however, are mutually comprehensible. This includes American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English, Indian multipoker English, and Pakistani English.According to Ethnologue, there are over 508 million speakers of

English as a first or second language multipoker as of 1999, a number dwarfed only by Chinese in terms of the number of speakers. However, Chinese has a smaller geographical range: it is spoken primarily multipoker in mainland China and Taiwan, and by a sizable immigrant community in the United States. multipoker In contrast, English is spoken multipoker multipoker in a vast number of territories, multipoker including Great Britain, Canada, the United States of America, multipoker Australia, and India. Its large number of speakers, plus its worldwide presence, have made English a common language for use in such diverse applications as controlling airplanes and developing software. Outline of changes in Modern

English The following is an outline of the major changes in Modern English compared to its previous form . Note, however, that these are generalizations, multipoker and some of these may not be true for specific dialects: Phonology : development of non-rhotic dialect, loss of IPA at ends of syllables; non-rhotic dialects may develop a new class of falling diphthongs multipoker by substituting schwa : IPA changed to IPA before IPA /s/, /θ/, /z/, /v/

alone or preceded by IPA for instance bath pronounced "bahth". upper-class multipoker southern English speech, esp. dialects associated with boarding schools, as prestige dialect in England. : loss of distinction between IPA and IPA father and bother rhyme ;: IPA /au/ become IPA /əu/ before voiceless consonants; house has a different diphthong from houses ; see Canadian multipoker raising. Syntax use of auxiliary verbs becomes mandatory in interrogative sentences.: Noah Webster and spelling reform.History of the English Language External links World English OrganizationHistory of the English languageGermanic languageszh:近代英语