English
English was spoken from the many whaling settlements established in Svalbard from 1611 to 1670.
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Famous quotes containing the word english:
“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.