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410
(410 AD) The Romans Leave Britian
The English language begins with the phrase "Up your Caesar", as the Romans leave Britian. -
450
(450 AD) Anglo Saxon
Romans left not much of their Latin language.
The Anglo-Saxon vocab was mainly words for simple everyday things like "house, "woman", "loaf"and "werewolf".
Four of days of week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods. -
597
(597 AD) Christian Missionaries
Christian missionaries bringing more Latin, new words like "martyr", "bishop" and "font" -
800
(800 AD) The Vikings
The Vikings came with their action-man words like "drag", "ransack", "thrust" and "die". They give and take two of around 2000 words that they gave English as well as phrase "Watch out for that man with the enormous axe" -
1066
(1066 AD) William The conqueror
William the conqueror invades England bringing new concepts from the French language. -
1125
(1125 AD) French was the rigeur for all official business
Words like: Justice (1154), Judge (1290), Evidence (1300), Jury (1400).
Latin was still used in Church. -
1300
(1300 AD) French words by the Normans
Words like "cow", "sheep" and "swine" come from the English farmers, while words like "beef", "mutton", and "pork" are french.
The English absorbed about ten thousand new words from the Normans. -
1337
(1337- 1453 AD) The hundred years war
The English nation took their new war like lingo of "armies", "navies" and "soldiers" and began "the hundred years war" against France.
French and English took over as the language of power. -
1564
(1564-1616) AD Sakespeare.
The dictionary tell us about 2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
He gave us words like "eyeball", "puppydog" and "anchovy", "dauntless", "besmirch", lacklustre", "alligator", "hobnob".
Shakespeare poetry showed the world that English was a rich vibrant language wit limitless expressive and emotional power. -
(1583-1914 AD) English Empire
English making its name as the language of science, the Bible and Shakespeare, Britian decided to visit some places.
(1650) They went to the Caribbean and discovering the barbeque (1650) and canoe (1550). They also brought back the word cannibal (1550).
In India "yoga" (1820) to stay in shape while pretending to be spiritual, cummerbund (1610), crimson (1500) and bungalow (1670).
Australia words like nugget (1852), boomerang (1827) and walkabout (1828). -
(1607-1935) American English
From the moment British landed in America they needed names for all the plants and animals so they borrowed words like "raccoon", "squash" and "moose" from the native americans.
The Dutch came sharing coleslaw (1794) and cookies (1703).
Later the Germans arrived selling pretzels (1856), delicatessens (1889) and the Italians arrived with their pizza (1935), pasta (1874) and mafia (1875). -
(1611 AD) The King James Bible
New translation of the Bible.
A team of scribes with the "wisdom of Solom" went the extra mile to make King "Jame´s translation". The writing was is handy little books; preachers reading from it in every church.
The King Jame´s Bible had a whole glossary of metaphor and morality that still shapes the way English is spoken today. -
(1660 AD) The English of Science
At first the scientist worked in Latin, but science was discovering things faster than they could name them, words like: acid (1626), gravity (1641), electricity (1646), penulum (1660).
The human body words like: cardiac (1601), tonsil (1601), ovary (1658), sternum (1667), penis (1693) and vagina (1682). -
(1746-1928 AD) The age of dictionary
(1746-175) With the English expanding came a new breed of men called lexicographies. One of the greatest was dr. Johnson whose dictionary of the English language took him nine years to write..
(1857) Words kept being invented a new book was started that would become "The Oxford English Dictionary". It took anoher 70 years to be finished.
(1928) It eventually appeared and has continued to be revised -
(1914-1967) American English
America spread a new language of capitalism words like breakeven (1914) and the botton line (1967), blue chip (1921) or white collar (1865).
The commuter needed a whole new system of freeways (1930), subways (1893), and parking lots (1924), merger (1926) and downsizing (1986), cool (1933), movies (1912), groovy (1937), jazz (1913). -
(1991-2004 AD) Internet English
In 1972 the first email was sent.
(1991) Internet arrived, a free global space to share information and the net brought typing back into fashion, words like: download (1980), toolbar (1991), firewall (1990), bolg(1998), poke (2004), reboot (1982), hard drive (1973).
Conversations were getting shorter like LOL, FAQ, IMHO, BTW, etc. -
(2004- AD)Global English
Right now around 1.5 billion people speak Englishof these about a quarter are native speakers a quarter speak it as their second language and half are able to ask for directions.
