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410
Chapter 1 - Anglo Saxon - Whatever happened to the Jutes?
English begin with the phrase "up yours Cesar" -
450
Anglo sax vocabulary
Anglo sax vocabulary was very useful at the time (house, woman, leaf, wear,) Four days of the week were named after the anglor god´s. -
Period: 450 to 450
450 AD
Tripes came in (saxons, anglos) together they form ANGLO-SAXON) THE JUTES -
597
597 AD
Christian misioneries took on funky new words from latin, like MARTYR, BISHOP, FONT -
800
800 Came the Vikings
Came the vikings with words like DRAG, RANSACK, THRUST, DIE. One of their motors was to GIVE AND TAKE
coming to 2000 thousand words the vikings gave to English -
1066
Chapter 2 - The norman conquest- Excuse my English
William the conqueror invades England bringing new concepts such as the frensh language
examples -
1125
William the conqueror
cuncile to council -
Period: 1125 to 1129
William the conqueror
clerc to clerk -
Period: 1129 to 1290
William the conqueror
Parlement to Parliament -
Period: 1290 to 1300
William the conqueror
souverain to sovereign - judge - evidence -
1300
1300
words like cow, sheep and swine were spoken by the English farmers but beef and porf came from the french -
1300
English absorbed many words
English absorbed 10,000 thousand words from the normans 1300 to 1453 was the English war agaisnt the French -
Period: 1400 to 1400
William the conqueror
jury - Justice ( at this pediod the common man spoke Enlish and it was anderstandable by speaking slowly and loudly) -
1550
The british had gather words and expresions as science
1550 - canooe was discovered
1550 - word "cannibal" was brouhgt
1640 - cumubund was invented in india
1650 -barbique was discovered
1670 - the bulgalow was created
1820 - yoga was created in india to help stay in shape while pretending to be spiritual -
1564
Chapter 3 - Shakespeare- a plaque on both his houses
about two thousand words and phrases were invented by William shakespeare (1564-1616) (bible, puppy dog) -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
William came up with the words (alligator) smile, mile, dial, the nile etc...or the "hob-nob" shakespeare´s poetry showed the world that English was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power. -
Chapter 6- english and empire- the sun never sets on the english language
1583-1914 the british had gather words and expresions as science, bible and shakespeare and went world wide
went to the carabian -
Due to all the experiments
Scientists became aware of the human body and came up with words like 1601 - cardiac
1601 - tonsil
1658 - ovary
1667 - sternum
1693 - penis
1682 - vagina made six education classes
1615 - clitoris -
Chapter 8 - American english - not english but somewhere in the ballpark
Pilgrims landed in america -
1607 - pilgrims, Dutch, Germans
Pilgrims landed in america and needed names for all the new plants and animals (raccoon, squash, moose etc..) 1703 - dutch brought the word "cookie" 1794 - the dutch came in and share coldslaw 1856 - germans became sellsmen of "pretzels" 1893 - "subways" came into the picture 1912 - american english drifted back across the pund as briths got the hand of their cool movies 1914 - breakeven - america spread a new language of capitalism -
Chapter 4- The king james bible: Let there be light reading
A new translation of the bible had begun. a team of scribes went the extra mile and wrote this translation. -
Period: to
Chapter 4- The king james bible: Let there be light reading
Begun several of our sayings now a days such as: a leopard can change its spots; a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush; a wolf and sheep clothing is part of the spot; a fly in the oiment is annoiyng -
The Royal society
1626 - acid
1641 - gravity
1646 - electricity
1660 - pendulum due to all the experiments, scientists became aware of the human body and came up with words like
1601 - cardiac
1601 - tonsil
1658 - ovary
1667 - sternum
1693 - penis
1682 - vagina made six education classes
1615 - clitoris -
In science things were discovered faster than thay could be named
1626 - acid
1641 - gravity
1646 - electricity
1660 - pendulum -
Chapter 5- The English of science- how to speak with gravity
britain was full of psychicist
Robert hooke (B.1635 -D.1703)
Robert Boyle (B.1627 -D.1691)
Isaac Newton (B.1643 -D.1727) -
The royal society was formed
The royal society was formed -
Chapter 7 - Age of the dictionary - the definition of a hopeless task
Lexicographers - a new breed of men: they had a question
What happens when people spell a word
slicely different? -
Period: to
Dr. Johnson
Dr, johnson created the dictionary (18 inches tall, contained 42, 773 entries) -
The british gathered words and expresions as science
1827 - from australia english took the word boomerang
1828 - from australia english took the word walkabout
1850 - in africa they had the words budduo
1852 - from autralia, english took the word nugget
1871 - zombie was also a part of the african culture -
Period: to
More words were stolen
Up to the first world war, the british empirre had rounded up to ten million square miles, four hundred
million people -
Period: to
The Oxford dictionary
1857 - the oxford dictionary was invented (took 70 years to be finished)
1928 - Another version of the oxford dictionary was revised and is still is until today -
Parking lots were made in america
1926 - the words "merger and downsizing" were invented 1930 - freeways were created and named 1935 - italians arrived with the words "pizza, and pasta" 1937 - groovy jazz -
Chapter 9 - Internet English - languange reverts to type
1972 - first e-mail was sent 1973 - the word "crashed" was born 1980 - "download" word was invented 1982 - "reboot" was a strong word to this time 1990 - the word "firewall" was invented -
1991 - ("toolbar" word was created)
Internet arrived or was created it if you will (free global space to share information) Conversations begin being shorter and shorter -
Period: to
The Internet
1998 - blogging- iniciated 2004 - poke - came to life on the internet chats, many words were simplify by tiping shorter and shorter
such as (if we´re honest life´s threatening accident was pretty hillarious) simply became "fail" -
Period: to
Today
Today about 1.5 billion people around the globe speak english
quarter are native speakers
quarter are speakers as a second language
the other half are people who can "ask for directions" assuming they speak english. At the end we have lots of english languages
we have- Hinglish- hindienglish Chinglish-chinese english
Singenglish-singapourian english -
Chapter 10 - Global English - Whose language is it anyway?
In the fifteen hundred years since the romans left britain, english as share a unique ability to share,
absord, evolve, invade, or better said "steal" English came to take many words from over 350 laguanges, and stablished it self as a global institution. -
Conclusion
English has so many routes that it´s almost imposible to call it English anymore
