It produces edible fruit, and its oval leaves may be purple, bronze, red or silver. The flowering plum tree (Prunus Ã blireana), USDA zones 6 through 8, is one of the most striking trees available for landscaping. A fruitless variety used for ornament or screening, it not only produces purple ovate leaves but showy pink flowers in spring or winter. Both trees take full sun to partial shade and moist soil in a variety of pH levels and types.
2. Dialects of Old English. Early Old English was not so much a language as a group of related dialects brought to southern Britain by Germanic invaders from the continental homelands during the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
The English vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages in the early medieval period, and later by Romance languages, particularly French. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states. It is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia.