The Spred of English
Across
- 2. in or to a foreign country or countries.
- 3. being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being.
- 6. able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker
- 8. a person who investigates unknown regions
- 10. a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
Down
- 1. the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries.
- 4. prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
- 5. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
- 7. a member of the people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia.
- 9. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.