History of English

  • 597 BCE

    Christian was hit with their action-man words

  • 450 BCE

    Angles and saxons arrived with the jews.

  • 410 BCE

    Began the English language as the romans leave.

  • 1066

    William made England bringing new concepts across the channel.

  • 1337

    The war of the hundred years lasted 116 years, and English took power as the important language.

  • 1500

    Since Romans left Britain English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, involved and steal.

  • 1550

    Canoe and Cannibal was invented

  • 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.

  • Native americans borrowed words for the animals and plants such as: "racoon" " squash" "moose"

  • The King James Bible introduced with the bible.

  • The word clitoris was invented

  • Word acid was invented

  • Word gravity was invented

  • Word electricity was invented

  • Barbecue was invented

  • The word ovary was invented

  • The royal society was formed out of the invisible college.

  • Word Pendulum was created

  • The word sternum started to exist

  • Word vagina was discovered

  • The word Penis was invented

  • The Dutch brought cookies

  • 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

  • Yoga was invented

  • Walkabout was invented

  • Vodoo was invented

  • Nugget was invented

  • Germanies arrived selling pretzels with delicatessens

  • A new book started that would become the Oxford English dictionary

  • Wore "chip with color"

  • Zombie was invented

  • Italians arrived with pasta

  • And "mafia" started

  • Subways were created

  • America spread a new language for capitalism

  • Wore "blue chip"

  • Parking lots were created

  • Merge was created

  • Continued to be revised, since proving the idea you can stop people making up words.

  • Freeways were created

  • As Brits got the hang of their cool movies

  • Their grovy jazz

  • Italians arrived with the pizza

  • The first email was sent

  • Nobody ever had to download anything before let alone use a toolbar

  • And the downsizing

  • Someone set a firewall

  • A free global space to share information arrived

  • 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.