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English At Home: When I was a child, we used Gujerati at home. My mother and father used Kachchi, a language related to Gujerati to each other. Sometimes there were visitors in the house, when perhaps Urdu, Hindi or English at home was spoken. The language of the streets and markets was Swahili. The language of religion was Arabic, and the language of the school was English at home! At school, I was taught to read and write Gujerati and English at home and later on, I started learning French . . . This is not unusual - it happens in many parts of the world.
Effect of the Union of the Crowns.—After James VI inherited the English at home throne (as James I) in 1603, in the union of the crowns, some of his poets went south with him. Of those who stayed at home, William Drummond of Haw-thornden (1585-1649) cultivated the international muses in pure English at home ; for Scottish writers had to face an alternative either to address all the king's subjects, most of whom knew only Southern English at home, or to be content with a local audience, who might understand both dialects.
For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home.
When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes. |
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