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:
“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“These are not the artificial forests of an English king,—a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of nature. The aborigines have never been dispossessed, nor nature disforested.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)