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410 BCE
First word
"Up yours caesar" -
59 BCE
Christianity
Words like "martyr" "bishop" "font" -
800
Vikings
Words like "drag" "die" "fast". Phrase "watch out for that man with the enormous axe" -
1066
French influence
New concepts . "judge" "jury" "justice" -
1300
Food concepts
Cow vs beef
Sheep vs mutton
Swine vs pork -
1337
Hundred years war
English took over as the language of power -
1564
William Shakespare
2,000 new words and terms were invented by him. -
Bible
The King James Bible gave a new translation to the Bible. -
Scientists
Things were discovered faster than they could name them so they invented the words. Also the human body parts -
Dictionary of the English Language
Contained 42,773 entries -
Stealing words
They took a lot of words from Australia and Africa -
Internet
New words were invented for things they have never been done before. -
Abbreviations
Make conversations shorter. LOL, BTW, IMHO,