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Private Eye

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'''''Private Eye''''' is a [[British]] satirical fortnightly magazine, with a strong [[liberal]] bias, founded in 1961 and currently edited by Ian Hislop. Its contents are a mixture of spoof news items, straight reporting and investigative journalism, cartoons, and an esoteric range of classified advertisements<ref>http://www.private-eye.co.uk/</ref>. It has a particular penchant for gossip about media and political figures. It has no overt political line, being to content to mock all British political parties for careerism and hypocrisy. The comedian Peter Cook was involved in the creation and running of Private Eye until his death, regularly contributing to columns and helping fund the large overheads which the publication and regular legal activity surrounding it incurred. The magazine uses a number of running gags; one of the most frequently employed, where the writers of an item run out of steam, is to break off by directing readers to a non-existent page, and this has the (contd. p94)

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English language

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The '''English language''' is the predominant language of the [[United States of America|United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]], <ref> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855611.html </ref> as well as other former members of the [[British Empire]]. Due to the enormous economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the these nations, English functions as the world's major international language.

==History and Development==

English is considered a member of the Germanic language family, one of the oldest surviving Germanic languages within the North-Sea Germanic/Ingvaeonic sub-grouping of this family, with a vocabulary based upon Saxon, Angle, and Jute descent. The language has changed considerably in its existence; predecessors to modern English are highly distinct and are often mistaken for a completely different language, as evident in Old-English and Middle English. [[French]], amongst other Romance languages, has had a large impact on the language as well, due to the conquest of England by the French speaking Normans in 1066 AD. French also had a great impact on the language as it was the Lingua-Franca, considered so up until [[World War II]] (where English itself became the Lingua-Franca), in subjects such as law, science, philosophy, and politics.

Scholars typically identify several key factors in the development of the language in regards to the insurgence of non-native terminology. These times include the influence of French, mentioned above, the commerce England had with Spain, introducing Spanish to the language, and the effect of the [[Renaissance]] and [[Enlightenment]] period, which brought Latin and Greek based words to the language. Based on the history of the English language, it is sometimes compared to a common [[Creole]] language due to the many factors that have helped it develop over hundreds of years.

After World War II, the rise of the United States as a world superpower led to English replacing French as the Lingua-Franca, becoming the world's most used language for diplomacy, commerce, science, and so forth. Because of this, English is considered the world's most important international language by many.<ref> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4080401.stm </ref>

==Spelling==
English spelling, technically phonetic based on the Latin alphabet, has changed considerably over time. Because England had vast differences in pronunciations and [[dialects]], and because there was no standardized agreement of how to represent each sound nor which Roman letters corresponded to which sound, spelling was quite variable. Standard spellings did not come about until the late seventeenth century. In or around 1828 in the United States, the lexicographer [[Noah Webster]] argued for simplifying some spellings which were no longer phonetic, such as the -our in words such as "colour". Most, though not all, of his proposed changes were adopted, such that US English spelling differs from UK English in some hundreds of instances. UK English spelling is the standard in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and most of the Commonwealth of Nations including Canada and Australia; US English spelling is the standard in the [[United States]] and its territories.

The term "English" may also be used to refer to a person from the United Kingdom born in the country of England, or to describe something from England or with characteristics particular to that place.

== Differences with other languages ==

In contrast with German, the English language requires designation of ongoing activities by appending "ing" to the verb, as in "he was running into the end zone when he dropped the football" or "I am teaching writing". Notice that a form of the verb "to be" is used as a helping verb; thus, constructions like "I do teaching writing" are ungrammatical.

==See also==
* [[Official English]]
* [[Anglosphere]]

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Modern conservatism

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'''Modern conservatism''' consists primarily of the following principles:

* [[pro-life]]
* pro-[[sovereignty]] (opposition to [[globalism]] and support for the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]])
* pro-[[parental rights]] (support of [[parent]]al control over school curriculum, and opposition to mandatory [[vaccination]])
* pro-[[homeschooling]]
* pro-alternatives to rule by the Establishment
* pro-[[Second Amendment]]
* pro-[[Christianity]] in the public square
* pro-[[traditional marriage]] (opposition to [[same-sex marriage|"same-sex" "marriage"]])
* pro-[[Constitution]] - (and anti-Con Con)
* pro-[[working class]]
* pro-[[patent]]s
* anti-[[Communist]]
* anti-[[feminist]]
* anti-judicial supremacy
* anti-[[illegal immigration]]
* anti-[[gambling]]
* anti-federalizing [[crime]]
== Ronald Reagan ==
Despite attempts by some to portray [[Ronald Reagan]] as a quintessential conservative, he was weak on several of the issues above, including his relative lack of pro-life nominations to the [[Supreme Court]], support for a form of [[gun control]] (in 1994 and 1986), acceptance of [[illegal immigration]] (1986 law), and criticism of [[term limit]]s for president ([[22nd Amendment]]). Also, his "[[free trade]]" policies were not helpful to the working class, and subsequent analysis of free trade shows that it caused huge [[unemployment|losses in American jobs]].<ref>http://www.epi.org/press/korus-cost-united-states-40000-jobs-korea/</ref>

== Barry Goldwater ==
[[Barry Goldwater]] was the last outsider to win the [[Republican]] nominee for president. He gained the nomination as a first-time candidate, in 1964, based on large part to the runaway bestselling book ''A Choice Not an Echo''. Though far more conservative than his [[liberal]] primary opponent, [[Nelson Rockefeller]], some of Goldwater's views did not exemplify the above list of conservative positions.

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