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2. IKEA - Wikipedia

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   Inter IKEA Systems B.V., [ 6][ 7] trading as IKEA ( / aɪˈkiːə / eye-KEE-ə, Swedish: [ɪˈkêːa] ), is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad and currently legally ...

3. English language - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [ 4][ 5][ 6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.

4. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford Dictionary of English ( ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English ( NODE ). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [ 1] The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is ...

5. Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Wikipedia

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   Take Our Daughters to Work Day UK (TODTW UK), was established as a charity in 1994, one year after the first event in the US. [10] Having worked in New York with Nell Merlino, the creator of the concept, Greg Parston, Chief Executive of the Office for Public Management (OPM) in London, offered OPM as the initial organizer of the scheme in the ...

6. History of English - Wikipedia

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   e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

7. Languages of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   Culture of the United Kingdom. English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, [ 13] but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish.

8. British English - Wikipedia

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   British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish ...

9. Stichting INGKA Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Stichting INGKA Foundation is a Dutch foundation founded in 1982 by Ingvar Kamprad, a Swedish billionaire and founder of IKEA, and his corporate attorney Linnea Walsh. INGKA is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world and used to be one of the largest nonprofit organisations in the world. [ 2][ 1] The name "INGKA" comes from a ...