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800 BCE
The Vikings arrival
The Vikings arrived to Britain around the 800th, introducing around 2000 new words to English -
597 BCE
The Christianism influence
Around 597 AD more latin arrived to Britain with Christianism -
450 BCE
Arriving of Saxons, Jutes and Angles
German Triebes Arrived to Brittain along with the Jutes, bringing lots of new words to describe everyday objects, as well as days of the week. -
410 BCE
The romans leave Britain
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1066
The Norman Conquest
By 1066 William the Conqueror invaded England, introducing French Language into Britain. French became "The official language" all bussiness and justice, as well as nobility issues were in French. While the rest of the population still sopke English. At the end of the Norman Conquest by 1453, English has already took around 10,000 words from French. And Enlglih returned to be the language of power. -
Period: 1066 to 1453
The Norman Conquest
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Period: 1500 to
The British Conquests and the new words
During many years, Britains also explored and conquered lands around the world introducing many new words to the language. And growing different variations of English. -
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The Science Influence
Science had an exponencial growth in the 17th Century, which came out with a problem, there wren´t words for new discoveries, nor for naming the human body anatomy, Therefore many new words were created to describe scientific terms. -
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The American English
American English has evolved ever since the first Birttish Settlenment in 1607. The first colonizers introduced new words from native Americans to describe the words of the new world. Later on, more Europeans came, as Italians, Germans, etc introducing more words that are used in the American English, Some of the words used in American English have become obsolete in British English. And it´s easy to differentiate between both English forms. -
The King James Bible
In 1611, the King James ordered a translation from Hebrew and Greek to English from the Bible, and made it "accesible" to all population. Introducing more vocabulary to the Modern English. -
The Shakespare influence
Shakespeare contributed with about 2000 new words and phrases to English. -
The First English Dictionary
In 1755 The Dictionary of the English Language was Published by the Lexicographer Dr. Jhonson and included 42, 773 entries in an attepmt to "standardize" the English written language. -
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary was published in !928 after 70 years of being started, and it´s continuously revised ever since. -
The Internet Influence
In 1972 the first E-mal was sent and as the science once needed new vocabulary, the Internet wasn´t the exception, and new words, have been created ever since. And surely they will continuing growing, as Internet keeps growing. -
Nowadays English
Nowadays English has become a Global Language. It´s Spoken by around 1.5 billion people, and just a quarter of them are native speakers. It´s used as a bussiness Language, is the Internet Language, the travel language and it´s the most Spoken Second LAnguage in the world. These days there are many variants of English.