If you speak English, you might be acquainted with quite a few other languages as well: Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Thai, to name just a    16   . You may not be fluent in any of these languages, but every day you use words from their vocabularies.In fact,    17  two or more different cultures establish and maintain contact over an extended period of time, the vocabulary of each culture’s language    18    word borrowing from each of the other cultures’ languages, English has borrowed words liberally from other languages to     19  its vocabulary.In the United Slates, much of this word honoring resulted The United States has been peopled     21    by immigrants, from its birth to the present day. One great wave of immigration to the United States took place from about 1820 to 1850.Millions of people  22  poverty and famine in their countries of origin  23    improving the quality of their lives. From Western Europe came millions of immigrants—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians. Each of these groups brought with it a(n)   24  culture. Language of each culture eventually would be woven    25    the cultural fabric of the developing nation. From 1880 to the 1920s,    26    wave ofimmigration from southern and eastern. Europe and other places of the world    27  the cultural vitality of the United States. Each of these cultures has    28  the vocabulary of American English. Immigration to the United States    29   to this day. Immigrants brought with them new words that reshaped American English during the past two     30   . American English will keep changing in the future.

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