In Old and Middle English the stressed syllable was always at the root syllable of the derived words. In modern English, the syllable can be in almost any syllable of a word.

The West Germanic branch of Indo-European family, to which English belongs, also includes German bass (Plattdeutsch), the Flemish and Frisian. The English came from three low German dialects spoken by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who emigrated from Denmark and northern Germany to settle in England from the mid fifth ce

Language English (English language) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the western branch of the Germanic family originating in England. It is the mother tongue for many people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, Jamaica, Ghana, India and the Anglophone Caribbean. It is used extensively as a second language and as an official language throughout the world, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations and many international organ