History of english

History of English

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  • 450 BCE

    ANGLO SAXON

    ANGLO SAXON
    • The Romans left Britain
    • Different tribes like the "Anglos", "Saxons" and "Jutes" arrived
    • The days of the week were named in honor of the Anglo- Saxo Gods
  • 800

    CHRISTIANITY AND VIKINGS

    CHRISTIANITY AND VIKINGS
    • The missionaries arrived with pamphlets on "jumble" and more Latin-derived words.
    • Christianity was a hit at the time, adding words like "martyr" and "bishop" to English.
    • The Vikings added words like "drag", "plunder", "quickly" and "die" for a total of 2,000 new words added to the English language.
  • 1066

    NORMAN CONQUEST

    NORMAN CONQUEST
    • William "The Conqueror" invaded England bringing new concepts such as the French language.
    • English is mandatory for everyone.
    • Latin was the language used by the church but the common man spoke English communicating if he spoke slowly and loudly.
  • 1300

    French and English

    French and English
    • Words like "sheep," "cow," and "pig" come from English-speaking farmers, while more sophisticated words for restaurant menus like "beef" and "lamb" come from French
    • This fact began to be a bit confusing to eat in restaurants
  • 1350

    100 Years War

    100 Years War
    • The English language absorbed about 10,000 new words from the Normans
    • The English nation borrowed from war words like "armies", "navies" and "soldiers".
    • The war actually lasted 116 years but at that time nobody knew how to count more than 100

  • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    • Shakespeare added about 2,000 words all invented by him.
    • He added words like "eyeball", "puppy", "anchovy", "intrepid", "putty", "dull", among others.....

  • THE KING JAMES BIBLE

    THE KING JAMES BIBLE
    • The translation of the Bible was given, in small books and spread throughout Great Britain
    -The King James Bible is the book that he taught that "a leopard cannot change the spots on it"
    • The King James Bible spawned a whole glossary of metaphor and morality.

  • THE ENGLISH OF SCIENCE

    THE ENGLISH OF SCIENCE
    • In the seventeenth century many scientists were not recognized but many began to appear in Great Britain as: Robert Hooke, Boyle or Issac Newton.
    • The Royal Society was formed
    • First they worked on Latin through Newton's story but they all spoke English, so they added words like "pendulum", "gravity" and "electricity"
    • When they were more aware of the human body they added the terms "penis" and "vagina" facilitating sexuality classes.

  • The Age of The Dictionary

    The Age of The Dictionary
    • English was expanding in all directions when lexicographers appeared who wanted to put an end to the anarchy of the moment.
    • Dr. Johnson made a dictionary of the English language that took him 9 years to write, but it contained 42,773 entries and was very large.

  • The English and the Empire

    The English and the Empire
    • The English of Great Britain acquired many varieties from different countries for example:
    • In the Caribbean they discovered the words "barbecue", "canoe" and the "recipe for rum"
    • In India there was "yoga" to keep everyone in shape pretending to be spiritual but at that time it didn't work
    • In Africa they picked up words like "voodoo" and "zombie".
    • In Australia they collected "nugget", "boomerang" and "walkabout"

  • THE AGE OF THE DICCTIONARY

    THE AGE OF THE DICCTIONARY
    • A new book is started that would become the Oxford English Dictionary.
    • Took 70 years to be finished
    • In 1928 it was paid for this book to be finished but it is always being revised.

  • AMERICAN ENGLISH

    AMERICAN ENGLISH
    • The British arrived in America for the first time, they needed words to name plants and animals and they appropriated words like "raccoon", "squash" and "moose", in addition to appropriating a part of the territory.

  • CONTINUATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH

    CONTINUATION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
    • Other countries contributed to the English language words such as:
    • "coleslaw" and "biscuits" from the Dutch
    • "pretzel" of the Germans
    • Italian "pizza" and "pasta"
    • English began to be the language of capitalism, with cities developing on a large scale first by having new "streets", "highways", "subways", "parking lots" and more, before expanding the language further.

  • INTERNET

    INTERNET
    • The first email in history was sent
    • The internet was free and information, images and ideas could be shared.
    • The internet brought problems in typing and there were injuries in people due to repetitive efforts
    • They began to add words to the English language such as "download" and "firewall" -Only had a single toolbar
    • There was less attention and the use of abbreviations began leaving more time to "blog", "poke around" or "reboot" your computer's hard drive.

  • THE INTERNET AGE

    THE INTERNET AGE
    • Abbreviations such as:
    • IMHO "In my humble opinion"
    • BTW "by the way"
      -LOL "laugh out loud"
    • UG2BK "you've got to be kidding"
    • They are some abbreviations that were used at the time and that generated not only changes in writing but also in verbal language, distorting the language a little and making it a little more complicated to understand.

  • GLOBAL ENGLISH

    GLOBAL ENGLISH
    • English has shown its ability to absorb, evolve, invade and even steal words to add to its language.
    • English traveled by sea from one country to another but also traveled by mobile broadband stealing words from 350 languages and establishing itself as a Global Institution

  • AT PRESENT

    AT PRESENT
    • English has an alphabet that doesn't sound like it is written, causing even Dan Brown to decipher it.
    • Currently 1.5 billion people speak English, of which 1/4 are native speakers, another 1/4 speak English as their second language and the remaining half ask for directions on how to get to a place
    • In conclusion, currently English has little relationship with England and it's time to stop calling things in different ways or with other names, otherwise it would be in Chinese to understand it.

  • REFERENCES

    REFERENCES
    History of English, Timeline, by Diana Gutierrez Frazco, self-made, 2022. The Open University. (2011). History of English (combined). [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/H3r9bOkYW9s