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410
Romans
Left England 410 A.D, to defend lands close to Italy. -
450
Anglo-Saxon
4 days of the week were named after Anglo Saxon's gods Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Words like house, werewolf, woman, loaf. -
470
Anglo-Saxon first written English
"This she-wolf is a reward to my kinsman", is the Anglo-Saxon first known written English sentence. A runic inscription on a gold medallion found in Suffolk, from about 450-480 AD. -
597
Christian
gave to the English dictionary, words like bishop, martyr, front -
800
Vikings
The Vikings came from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They spoke Old Norse, an early North Germanic language not that unlike to Anglo-Saxon and kind analogous to modern Icelandic. Old Norse was gradually combined into the English language, and many Scandinavian terms were introduced. Added around 2000 words to the dictionary. -
1066
Norman Conquest
The conquering Normans came with William the Conqueror. They descended from Vikings, however, they adopted French language and left away the Old Norse.
Anglo-Norman French was the language of the kings and nobility of England for more than 300 years, and the peasantry and lower classes (an estimated 95%) continued to speak English.
William the Conqueror, brought new concepts from French, like judge, jury, evidence, justice and around 10,000 new words. -
1453
English over French
By 1453, English took over as a language in England. -
1564
Shakespear
2,000 were invented in English by him: puppy dog, eyeball, anchovy, dauntless, alligator, etcetera.
His poetry showed that English was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power. 1564-1616 -
English and empire
British colonialism begun as early as the 16th Century. They went to the Caribbean looking for gold, and discovered a new place to establish and colonise.
Britain ruled almost one quarter of the earth’s surface, from Canada to Australia to India to the Caribbean to Egypt to South Africa to Singapore.
During this time, invented new words: (1550-1650) Barbecue, canoe, cannibal.
From India (1820) they got paunch, bungalow. From Africa (1850) voodoo. From Australia nugget, boomerang, walkabout. -
American English
British landed in America. They needed new words for all the new things they had in the new place, and they borrowed words like raccoon, squash, and moose, from Native Americans. -
King James Bible
A new translation of the Bible by King James, was published. It is often considered a masterpiece of the English language, and many phrases from it have become well-used in every day speech. It is still considered by many to be the definitive English version of “The Bible”. -
English of Science
Before 17th century, all scientists were recognised, later to Robert Hook, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. The Royal Society was formed, where they first spoke latin, but later they realised everybody spoke English as their first language, and they set it as a scientific language. They began to enter new words to the dictionary: acid, gravity, electricity, pendulum and new words of the human body cardiac, tonsil, ovary, sternum, penis, vagina, clitoris. -
Age of dictionary
English language expanding everywhere, came lexicographers like Dr Johnson, his dictionary took 9 years to write 42,773 entries -
Germans
From Germans , they took the word pretzel -
Age of dictionary
A new book came: OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY took 70 years to finish, by 1928 was paid and it is revised every since. -
Capitalism
It appears the word subway for the fist time. -
Capitalism
The word PARKING LOTS appeared for the first time. -
Capitalism
It first appeared the word HIGHWAY -
Italians
From Italians, they borrowed pizza, pasta and mafia -
Back in Britain
Brought the word JAZZ, and some people forgot English words that were used in America, and used words like fall, faucet, dippers and candy -
Internet English
The first mail was sent -
Internet English
The first download -
Internet English
The first time a fire wall was used -
Internet English
The first use of a toolbar -
Internet English
the first blog was uploaded
