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450
Anglo Saxon
The English Language begins with the phrase "Up yours, Caesar",
As the Romans Leave Britain and a lot of germanic start flooding in such as the Anglo Saxons.
The Anglo Saxon vocab was much more useful, they named simple everyday things, they also named 4 days of the week based on their gods.
The christians and Vikings contributed with a lot of words -
1066
The Norman Conquest
William the conqueror invades England bringing new concepts, but the common man spoke English. English absorbed about 10,000 new words. In the 100 year war English took over as the language of power . -
1502
American English
When brits landed in America they needed names for new plants an animals. they stole words from Native Americans. America spread a new language of capitalism. American english drifted back across the pond, bringing new words to Britain -
1564
Shakespeare
About 2,000 words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare. He gave us handy words. Shakespeare showed us that english was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power. -
The King James Bible
A team of scribes went the extra mile to make King James translation all things to all man. This new bible went from strenght to strenght. The king James Bible is the book that begat a whole glossary of metaphor and morality. -
The English of Science
Britain was full of physicists. At first they worked in latin, they realized that they could transform our understanding much quicker by speaking their own language. They had to invent new words in English -
The age of the Dictionary
Everyone was spelling the words differently, so Dr. Johnson took 9 years to write a dictionary contained 42,000,773 words.
Now you can understand what people where saying .
in 1857 the Oxford English Dictionary was invented, it took 70 years to finish. -
English and Empire
Britain wanted to show English to all the world, on their tour, they invented new words based on the country that they were.
Now English have a lot of varieties -
Internet English
In 1972 the first email was sent. Internet is a space to share ideas. The English changed thanks to internet because the language had to adapt to be a modern language -
Global English
About 1.5 Billion people speak English.
