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450
Angel asn Saxons arrival to Britain
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Period: 450 to 1150
Old english
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597
Christianization in Britain
te Angels and Saxons turn to Christianity and started using some latin words -
865
viking invasion
Some words were borrowed from Old Norse(vinking Language , which was intelligible with Old English -
1066
Battle of hastings
Battle between the Norman-French army and the English army -
Oct 14, 1066
Norman-French influence
After the Battle of Hastings, Norman-French became the language of power, but the people of britain continued to speak English -
1150
tug-of-war
This is the year that starts the tug-of-war between Norman French influences on the English language -
Period: 1150 to 1500
Middle English
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1230
marriage invasions
People in England kept marrying and importing French woman, that bring with them a lot of French retainers, knights, servants etc. -
1348
Black Death in Britain
The Black Death killed so many peasants,then creating an economic tear for them in the next generation. -
1400
The pronounciation loss of the letter e
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1453
End of the Hundred Years' War
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Period: 1500 to
Modern English
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1558
begining of Elizabethan era
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William Shakespeare's influence
When William Shakespeare began writing his plays, the English language was using words from other languages due to wars and colonization. Shakespeare expressed new ideas and distinctions by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, known as neologising. -
The British Empire had facilitated the spread of Modern English through its colonies
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The First English Dictionary
