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  2. Change your language or location preferences in AOL

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    1. Login to your AOL account. 2. Click your profile to access your Account info. 3. From the Language menu, select your desired language and region. Still need help? Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. Feedback.

  3. YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [ note 1 ] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google ...

  4. Help:Preferences - Wikipedia

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    Change the language of user-interface messages. It does not affect articles and other pages made by editors. Note that many interface messages have been customized at the English Wikipedia but usually only for the default "en - English" which may for example add links to relevant help pages, processes and policies.

  5. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common words are Germanic. [1] However, the percentage of loans in everyday conversation varies by dialect and idiolect, even if English vocabulary at large has a greater Romance influence.

  6. English as a lingua franca - Wikipedia

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    e. English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1][2] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". [3][4] ELF is "defined functionally by its ...

  7. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

  8. Multilingual User Interface - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of Windows 7 Start Menu with English selected in the left image, and Japanese selected in the right. Multilingual User Interface (MUI) enables the localization of the user interface of an application. MUI is provided by Microsoft as an integrated feature of its operating system Windows 11 down to Windows 2000 with some limitations in ...

  9. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). [2] Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic.