English may refer to something of, from, or related to England, especially:
- The English language
- English studies, the study of English language and literature, often as a school subject
- English grammar
- The English people
Famous quotes containing the word english:
“He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)