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1134 "The question as to which is the nearest living relative of English is a matter of discussion. Apart from such English-lexified creole languages such as Tok Pisin, Scots (spoken primarily in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland) is not a Gaelic language, but is part of the English family of languages: both Scots and modern English are descended from Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon. The closest relative to English after Scots is Frisian, which is spoken in the Northern Netherlands and Northwest Germany. Other less closely related living West Germanic languages include German, Low Saxon, Dutch, and Afrikaans. The North Germanic languages of Scandinavia are less closely related to English than the West Germanic languages.\n" +
1144 "The countries with the highest populations of native English speakers are, in descending order: United States (215 million),[16] United Kingdom (58 million),[17] Canada (17.7 million),[18] Australia (15 million),[19] Ireland (3.8 million),[17] South Africa (3.7 million),[20] and New Zealand (3.0-3.7 million).[21] Countries such as Jamaica and Nigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continuums ranging from an English-based creole to a more standard version of English. Of those nations where English is spoken as a second language, India has the most such speakers ('Indian English') and linguistics professor David Crystal claims that, combining native and non-native speakers, India now has more people who speak or understand English than any other country in the world.[22] Following India is the People's Republic of China.[23]\n" +
1334 "The nuclear syllable is spoken more loudly than the others and has a characteristic change of pitch. The changes of pitch most commonly encountered in English are the rising pitch and the falling pitch, although the fall-rising pitch and/or the rise-falling pitch are sometimes used. In this opposition between falling and rising pitch, which plays a larger role in English than in most other languages, falling pitch conveys certainty and rising pitch uncertainty. This can have a crucial impact on meaning, specifically in relation to polarity, the positive?negative opposition; thus, falling pitch means \"polarity known\", while rising pitch means \"polarity unknown\". This underlies the rising pitch of yes/no questions. For example:\n" +
1352 "Germanic words (generally words of Old English or to a lesser extent Norse origin) which include all the basics such as pronouns (I, my, you, it) and conjunctions (and, or, but) tend to be shorter than the Latinate words of English, and more common in ordinary speech. The longer Latinate words are often regarded as more elegant or educated. However, the excessive or superfluous use of Latinate words is considered at times to be either pretentious (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of \"apprehending the suspect\") or an attempt to obfuscate an issue. George Orwell's essay \"Politics and the English Language\" is critical of this, as well as other perceived abuses of the language.\n" +
1368 "The vocabulary of English is undoubtedly vast, but assigning a specific number to its size is more a matter of definition than of calculation. Unlike other languages, there is no Academy to define officially accepted words. Neologisms are coined regularly in medicine, science and technology and other fields, and new slang is constantly developed. Some of these new words enter wide usage; others remain restricted to small circles. Foreign words used in immigrant communities often make their way into wider English usage. Archaic, dialectal, and regional words might or might not be widely considered as \"English\".\n" +
1394 " * All other languages contributed less than 1% (e.g. Arabic-English loanwords)\n" +
1417 "There are many words of French origin in English, such as competition, art, table, publicity, police, role, routine, machine, force, and many others that have been and are being anglicised; they are now pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French. A large portion of English vocabulary is of French or Oïl language origin, most derived from, or transmitted via, the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest.\n";
3285 " define MALLOC_ALIGNMENT to be wider than this if necessary.\n" +
3304 " allocated than were requested in malloc) is less than or equal\n" +
3362 " paths. (FAQ: some macros import variables as arguments rather than\n" +
3620 " expense of not being able to handle more than 2^32 of malloced\n" +
3652 " larger than this though. Note however that code and data structures\n" +
3801 " versions are faster than libc versions on some systems.\n" +
3925 " or so) may be slower than you'd like.\n" +
3970 " kernel versions newer than 1.3.77.\n" +
4069 " defines the fields using a type of different width than listed here,\n" +
4118 " differs across systems, but is in all cases less than the maximum\n" +
4170 " if n is for fewer bytes than already held by p, the newly unused\n" +
4258 " than current total if trimming has occurred.\n" +
4459 " an allocated chunk, which may be more than you requested (although\n" +
4479 " via sbrk and mmap), the maximum amount (which may be more than\n" +
4483 " number requested. It will be larger than the number requested\n" +
4485 " alignment wastage as being in use, this figure may be greater than\n" +
4513 " than or equal to the default. The maximum supported value of MXFAST\n" +
4514 " is 80. You wouldn't want it any higher than this anyway. Fastbins\n" +
4581 " The trim value must be greater than page size to have any useful\n" +
4587 " freeing a chunk with size less than or equal to MXFAST. Trimming is\n" +
4629 " this value, at the expense of carrying around more memory than\n" +
4672 " malloc steps is faster than going through a system's mmap.\n" +
4690 than a few of them may degrade\n" +
5210 " is forced to always exist. If it would become less than\n" +
5938 " Since more things can be checked with free chunks than inuse ones,\n" +
5975 " /* chunk is less than MINSIZE more than request */\n" +
6032 " /* internal size_t must be no wider than pointer type */\n" +
6174 " malloc from scratch rather than getting memory from system. This\n" +
6177 " than in malloc proper.\n" +
6193 " rather than expanding top.\n" +
6203 " is one SIZE_SZ unit larger than for normal chunks, because there\n" +
6393 " If MORECORE returns an address lower than we have seen before,\n" +
6463 " MORECORE is allowed to give more space than we ask for,\n" +
6615 " This avoids problems if first call releases less than we asked,\n" +
6814 " /* if smaller than smallest, place first */\n" +
6968 " less well fitting) than any other available chunk since it can\n" +
7521 " /* If need less alignment than we give anyway, just relay to malloc */\n" +
7557 " calculation places us at a spot with less than MINSIZE leader,\n" +
8114 " * MORECORE may allocate more memory than requested. (Or even less,\n" +
8157 " If you are using this malloc with something other than sbrk (or its\n" +
