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Chapter 1: Anglosaxon
The English language began with the phrase "up yours Caesar".
The Romans left some very straigt roads beind, but many of their Latin language. The anglosaxo vocalo was much more useful.
Christian missionaries stole in, bring with them leaflets about jumble sales and more latin influence to the cristians.
A long cames te vikingos with their action man words (die,drag). They can have raped and pillaged, but there were also into give and take. -
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Chapter 2: The Norman Conquest
William te conqueror invades England bringing new concepts from across te channel like the French languages.
Parlament
Judge
Justice In this chapter the French language came into English leaving many words of the norm. Wars were waged against the French. After this war, English became the language of power -
Chapter 3: Shakespeare
As the dictionary tells about about 2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare knew the power of key phrases as well as cookies Shakespeare´s poetry showed the world that english was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power. -
Chapter 4: The king James Biblie(light reading)
The Romans traslate the biblie to King James, everything that was written was about strengths. This bible was read in all the churches, and spread throughout the world. This book taught many things, about morality. -
Chapter 5:The English os science
There were several scientists like Isaac Newton. The Royal Society is created, they only spoke in English, for this reason they could understand each other. they invented scientific words -
Chapter 6: English and Empire
Language os science The British started looking for new materials and utensils. Napoleon made his first war. The British Empire came to many parts looking new varieties os English to develop all over the globe. -
Chapter 7:The age of the dictionary
Dr. Johnson made the dictionary, it had 42773 meanings, with this people learned new words. after in 1857 another dictionary called Oxford English dictionary was created -
Chapter 8: American English
When the British arrived on American soil, they had to name new things. Citizens modernized and used a new transport system -
Chapter 9: Internet English
The first email was sent, a lot of information was shared and they could communicate more easily. -
Chapter 10: Global English
The internet communicated to the whole world in over 350 languages, but English is the universal language. Right now around 1.5 billions people speak English