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The word "English" comes from the name of the nation where the language originated, England. The name "England" itself comes from "Angle", which in this case referred to a Germanic tribe that settled England in the 5th and 6th centuries.

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It came from a Germanic Group of people who overran the British Isles in the 5th Century, called the Angles. It was said they came from Angul. The Old English word is Englisc

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