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  2. United Kingdom–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    The United States would gain all of the area east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada. The northern boundary would be almost the same as today. The United States would gain fishing rights off the Atlantic coast of Canada, and agreed to allow British merchants and Loyalists to try to recover their property. It was a ...

  3. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a type of minivan sold in the United States (see Dodge Caravan) caretaker (n.) one who takes care of a building, e.g. a school (US: janitor; cf. s.v. custodian) one put in charge of a farm after eviction of tenant one who takes care of someone or something stopgap government or provisional government

  5. List of country groupings - Wikipedia

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    Community of Portuguese Language Countries; Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance between Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and observer members Serbia and Afghanistan. Council of Europe, political alliance of 46 European countries. CEE: Central and Eastern Europe [9] CUSA: Canada and the United ...

  6. Anglosphere - Wikipedia

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    While the nations included in different sources vary, the Anglosphere is usually not considered to include all countries where English is an official language, so it is not synonymous with the sphere of anglophones, though commonly included nations are those that were formerly part of the British Empire and retained the English language and ...

  7. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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    The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.

  8. Languages of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A 2006 survey found that 23% of the UK population self-reported that they could hold a "basic conversation" in French, 9% in German and 8% in Spanish. [98] [99] In the same survey, 38% of UK citizens reported that they could speak (well enough to have a conversation) at least one language other than their mother tongue, 18% at least two ...

  9. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is by far the most common second language in the country, with over 50 million total speakers if non-native or second-language speakers are included. [44] While English is the de facto national language of the country, Spanish is often used in public services and notices at the federal and state levels.