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450 BCE
Anglo-Saxon
As the Romans leave Britain an a lot of Germanic tribes arrived. Tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons. Their vocab was much useful (four of our days of the week were named in honor of Anglo-Saxon gods). -
597
Missionaries and Vikings
Christian missionaries brought more Latin like martyr,bishop.
Vikings came later with words like crag and die. -
1066
French Language
William the Conqueror invade England with his French language (beef, mutton and pork). French was for all official business. Latin was still used, but the common man spoke English words. English absorbed about 10,000 new words from the Normans, but after 116 year of war against France , English took over as the language of power (1453). -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
He Invented about 2,000 new words and phrases, like eyeball, puppy dog, lackluster and hob-nob. His poetry showed us that English was rich, vibrant and expressive language. -
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Britain
British empire decided to take a trip, discovering the barbecue (1650), the canoe (1550), and gobbled up around yen million square miles and four hundred million people, leaving new varieties of English to develop all over the globe. -
The King James Bibles
It was an English translation of the bible. -
Britain Physicists
Robert Hooke (1623-1703), Robert Boyle ( 1627-1691) and Isaac Newton (1643-1727), at first worked in Latin. Then science was discovering things and words like,acid, gravity, electricity, tonsil, ovary and sternum. -
English spreaded
Dr. Johnson (lexicographer), whose dictionary of the English language(1746-1755) contained forty two thousand seven hundred and seventy three entries. In 1857 a new dictionary was started, it would become the oxford English. -
American English
When Brits landed in America , they borrowed words like raccoon and moose from the native Americans. Later a wave of immigrants arrived like Germans (1889), Italians (with their pizza 1935). There are some old forgotten English words that lived on in America (fall, diapers), while Brits moved on autumn, nappies. -
Internet and English language
Language reverb to type. Before internet English changed through people speaking it. Right now around 1.5 billion people speak English ( a quarter are native speakers, a quarter speak it as their second language).
