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1300 BCE
From cow to beef
Cow and sheep from the English speaking farmers became beef, pork from the French speaking
English absorbed around 10,000 new words from the Normans -
800 BCE
Vikings
They gave us around 2000 words like the word die -
500 BCE
Proto Germanic
language spoken around 500 bce -
1564
Shakespeare
2000 new words were invented by William Shakespeare, words like eyeball and alligator where invented by him and he also showed the world that English is a rich language -
Britain's tour
First they went to the Caribbean looking for gold but they discovered words like BBQ (1650 c), India the word yoga (1820) Africa words like zombie (1817) And from Australia they got the word nugget (1852) -
Borrowed Words
Borrowed words like raccoon from native Americans -
The king James Bible
He gave a new translation to the nowadays Bible -
Hooke Boyle and Newton (science)
They started working with Latin and they realized they needed to talk in their language so words like electricity (1646) and pendulum (1660) and human body words like cardiac (1601) and ovary (1658) -
Dictionary of the English Language
took 9 years to write the dictionary -
American´s hunger for words
The dutch came sharing coleslaw and cookies -
Borrowed Words pt.2
Arrived with pretzels -
The Oxford English Dictonary
Words kept being invented and this book came out and it took another 70 years to be finished -
Borrowed Words pt.3
Pizza (1935) and pasta and the Italian mafia of course. -
Language of capitalism
everyone was worried about the break even, brits got the hang of their cool movies (1933) and groovy jazz (1913) -
Internet English
Limited conversation because of abbreviations like "blog" (1998)
BTW; FYI, LOL
