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597 BCE
Christian was hit with their action-man words
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450 BCE
Angles and saxons arrived with the jews.
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410 BCE
Began the English language as the romans leave.
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1066
William made England bringing new concepts across the channel.
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1337
The war of the hundred years lasted 116 years, and English took power as the important language.
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1500
Since Romans left Britain English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, involved and steal.
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1550
Canoe and Cannibal was invented
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1564
2000 new phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.
1564- 1616 -
Britain World tour for natural resources to the crown and few local words in return.
1583-1914 -
Cardiac and Tonsil were invented.
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Native americans borrowed words for the animals and plants such as: "racoon" " squash" "moose"
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The King James Bible introduced with the bible.
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The word clitoris was invented
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Word acid was invented
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Word gravity was invented
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Word electricity was invented
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Barbecue was invented
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The word ovary was invented
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The royal society was formed out of the invisible college.
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Word Pendulum was created
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The word sternum started to exist
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Word vagina was discovered
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The word Penis was invented
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The Dutch brought cookies
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Doctor Johnson dictionary took him nine years to write it contained 42,773 words.
1746-1755 -
Between toppling Napoleon and the World War, the British Empire gubbled ten million square miles
1783-1924 -
The Dutch brought coleslaw
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Yoga was invented
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Walkabout was invented
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Vodoo was invented
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Nugget was invented
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Germanies arrived selling pretzels with delicatessens
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A new book started that would become the Oxford English dictionary
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Wore "chip with color"
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Zombie was invented
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Italians arrived with pasta
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And "mafia" started
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Subways were created
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America spread a new language for capitalism
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Wore "blue chip"
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Parking lots were created
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Merge was created
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Continued to be revised, since proving the idea you can stop people making up words.
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Freeways were created
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As Brits got the hang of their cool movies
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Their grovy jazz
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Italians arrived with the pizza
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The first email was sent
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Nobody ever had to download anything before let alone use a toolbar
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And the downsizing
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Someone set a firewall
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A free global space to share information arrived
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Right now around 1.5 billion people speak Enlish, a quarter are native speakers, a quarter speak it has their second language. And half are able to ask for direction to go to a swimming pool.