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400 BCE
400
English language all started with 3 German tribes who conquered Britain in the 5th Century. They went across the North Sea from what is now Denmark and Northern Germany. At that time, the people who lived in Britain spoke the Celtic language. One of the tribes that came from Englaland. Their language was called Englisc. The words English and England came from. -
Period: 400 BCE to
English Origin
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Period: 410 to 1150
Old English
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600
Christianity
Christianity was introduced to the Anglo-Saxons by a missionary from Rome
Christian misioneries took on funky new words from latin, like MARTYR, BISHOP, FONT -
700
Beowulf's Writing
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800
800 Came the Vikings
Came the vikings with words like DRAG, RANSACK, THRUST, DIE. One of their motors was to GIVE AND TAKE
coming to 2000 thousand words the vikings gave to English -
1066
NORMANS
In 1066 William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy (part of modern France), came and took control of England. The new conquerors;the Normans, brought with them French, which became the language of the Royal Court, including the ruling and business classes. For a period there was a kind of class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. In the 14th century English became the most used language in Britain again, but with many French words added. -
1125
William the conqueror
cuncile to council -
Period: 1129 to 1290
William the conqueror
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Period: 1150 to 1450
Middle English
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1300
English absorbed many words
English absorbed 10,000 thousand words from the normans 1300 to 1453 was the English war agaisnt the French words like cow, sheep and swine were spoken by the English farmers but beef and porf came from the french -
Period: 1450 to
Early Modern English
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1550
The british had gather words and expresions as science
1550 - canooe was discovered
1550 - word "cannibal" was brouhgt
1640 - cumubund was invented in india
1650 -barbique was discovered
1670 - the bulgalow was created
1820 - yoga was created in india to help stay in shape while pretending to be spiritual -
1564
Shakespeare- a plaque on both his house
about two thousand words and phrases were invented by William shakespeare (1564-1616) (bible, puppy dog) -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
William came up with the words (alligator) smile, mile, dial, the nile etc...or the "hob-nob" shakespeare´s poetry showed the world that English was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power. -
English and empire- the sun never sets on the English language
1583-1914 the British had gather words and expresions as science, bible and shakespeare and went world wide
went to the Carabian -
Due to all the experiments
Scientists became aware of the human body and came up with words like 1601 - cardiac
1601 - tonsil
1658 - ovary
1667 - sternum
1693 - penis
1682 - vagina made six education classes
1615 - clitoris -
1607 - pilgrims, Dutch, Germans
Pilgrims landed in America and needed names for all the new plants and animals (raccoon, squash, moose etc..) 1703 - Dutch brought the word "cookie" 1794 - the Dutch came in and share coldslaw 1856 - Germans became sellsmen of "pretzels" 1893 - "subways" came into the picture 1912 - American English drifted back across the pund as Briths got the hand of their cool movies 1914 - breakeven - America spread a new language of capitalism -
Chapter 4- The king james bible: Let there be light reading
A new translation of the bible had begun. a team of scribes went the extra mile and wrote this translation. -
The English of science- how to speak with gravity
britain was full of psychicist
Robert hooke (B.1635 -D.1703)
Robert Boyle (B.1627 -D.1691)
Isaac Newton (B.1643 -D.1727) -
Age of the dictionary - the definition of a hopeless task
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Period: to
Modern English
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Internet English - languange reverts to type
1972 - The first e-mail was sent 1973 - the word "crashed" was born 1980 - The "download" word was invented 1982 - "reboot" was a strong word at this time 1990 - the word "firewall" was invented -
The Internet
Internet arrived or was created it if you will (free global space to share information) Conversations begin being shorter and shorter -
Period: to
The Internet
1998 - blogging- iniciated 2004 - poke - came to life on the internet chats, many words were simplify by tiping shorter and shorter
such as (if we´re honest life´s threatening accident was pretty hillarious) simply became "fail" -
Period: to
Today
Today about 1.5 billion people around the globe speak English
a quarter are native speakers
a quarter are speakers as a second language
the other half are people who can "ask for directions" assuming they speak English. In the end we have lots of English languages
we have- Hinglish- Hindi-English Chinglish-Chinese English
Singenglish-Singaporean English -
Global English - Whose language is it anyway?
In the fifteen hundred years since the Romans left Britain, the English have shared a unique ability to share,
absorb, evolve, invade, or better said "steal" English came to take many words from over 350 languages, and established itself as a global institution. -
2024
English has so many routes that it´s almost imposible to call it English anymore