History of Albany, New York (1664–1784) state capital in the United States. In the period leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War, King Charles II of England granted the land from Maine to Delaware, which included all of New Netherland, to his brother James, Duke of York. In April 1664 four ships with a combined 450-men fighting force set sail for New Amsterdam. Fort Orange was surrendered to the English 16 days after New Amsterdam (the city of New York). Surrender terms at New Amsterdam were quite generous. Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany, and the village of Beverswyck was renamed Albany, in honor of the
New York City English appears to descend from an outdated African-American English meaning of "male receptive participant in anal sex". New Yorkers tend to say they stand "on" line, whereas most other American-English speakers tend to stand "in" line. Small convenience stores are, in recent decades, often called "bodegas," from the Spanish term originally meaning "a wine storehouse" via the Puerto Rican Spanish term for "small store; corner store", or "delis," which is the short form of "delicatessens". New York speakers have some unique conversational styles. Linguistic professor Deborah Tannen notes in a "New York Times" article it has "an emphasis to involve the