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The Emperor Fountain is a 19th-century fountain in the grounds of Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England. The Canal Pond in which the fountain stands is 283 metres (928 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. The fountain and pairs of surrounding sculptures has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. [1]
The name 'Chatsworth' is a corruption of Chetel's-worth, meaning "the Court of Chetel". [6] In the reign of Edward the Confessor, a man of Norse origin named Chetel (Danish-Norwegian: Ketil) held lands jointly with a Saxon named Leotnoth in three townships: Ednesoure to the west of the Derwent, and Langoleie and Chetesuorde to the east. [7]
The ice house is in the garden to the south of the house by the Canal Pond. It is sunk into the ground, and has a retaining dry stone wall of sandstone. The doorway, now blocked, has a stone lintel, and behind it is a circular domed structure. [21] II: Statue east of the Ring Pond
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia, primarily in or before the mid-20th century. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into modern Estuary English . However, it has received little attention from the media and is not easily recognised by people from other parts of the United Kingdom.
Chatsworth Television, a British television production company; 1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck, bridge collapse on the Toledo, Peoria & Western railroad in Illinois; 2008 Chatsworth train collision, a collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles on September 12, 2008
1688. Guy Miège: The English Grammar. [34] 1693. Joseph Aickin: The English grammar. [34] 1700. A. Lane: A Key to the Art of Letters. [34] 1745. Ann Fisher A New Grammar. [35] 1761. Joseph Priestley: The Rudiments of English Grammar:Adapted to the Use of Schools. 1762. Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes ...
The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological system similar to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including constructions characteristic of the Germanic daughter languages such as ...