history of the english languge

  • 55 BCE

    enlish stole roman words

    face: the front part of a person's head from the forehead to the chin, or the corresponding part in an animal.
    - facies: meaning a facial expression
    plant:a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses
    - planta: the back side of the shank of a bird's leg.
  • 55 BCE

    romans invade england

    juliase tells the romans to invade England with him leading
  • 410

    the anglo-saxons came

  • Period: Apr 23, 1564 to

    shakespeare

  • Webster publishes his American English dictionary

  • Oxford English Dictionary was written/published

    Number of pages: 22,000
    Who wrote it: William Chester Minor, James Murray, Frederick James Furnivall, J. R. R. Tolkien and Herbert Coleridge.