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450
Anglo-Saxon
The Romans leave Britain, a lot of tribes such as the Anglos and the Saxons star following them, they left behind their Latin using daily and simple frases. They king also named four days of the week in honor of their Gods, later came the Christians and viking who also contributed with a lot of words -
1066
The Norman conquest
William the conquer invades England, bringing new concepts such as the French language, French was used for all oficial business with words like judge and jury. Latin was used in church but the language was English. English absorbs a lot of words from the normans -
Period: 1502 to
American English
when the Britains conquered America, they needed to find new words for all the new things the found in America (the new plants, animals, etc.) So they used the words from the native Americans. America created new words for capitalism, and adapted words from all over the world. -
Period: 1564 to
Shaksepeare
Shakespeare invented about 2000 handy words and showy words.
Examples; Handy words: bible, puppy dog, Showy words: besmirch and dauntless.
He showed the world that the English language is a rich and unique language. -
The king James Bible
He translated the Bible in books , he brought a whole glossary of morality and metaphors that still shape the way english is spoken today. -
The English of science
Britain had a lot of scientist (physicists). At first the scientist worked in latin, then they realize that they all spoke english and they could transform our understanding of the universe much quicker by speaking their own language. Science was advancing much quicker so they had to invent new words of new scientific terms.
Examples: acid, gravity, electricity, pendulum, cardiac, tonsil, etc. -
Period: to
The age of dictionary
The lexicographers (phonologist) wanted to put and end to this anarchy. Everyone has a slightly different way of spelling the words. Dr. Johnson decided to write a dictionary that said how to spell the words, that took him 9 years to write. The dictionary contained 42,000,773 entries. Words continued being invented and in 1857 started a new book that became the Oxford English Dictionary, it took another 70 years to finish (1928). -
Period: to
English and empire
Britain decided to take the english on tour, asking for land, wealth, natural resources, total obedience of the crown and a few local words in return.
Caribbean: the world cannibal
Africa: words like voodoo and zombie.
Between Napoleon and WWI the British Empire gobbled up around 10,000,000 square miles and 400,000,000 million people. Leaving new varieties of english to develop all over the world. -
Period: to
Internet Engish
In 1972 the first email was sent, soon the internet arrived and new words and terms where invented and abbreviations where used. -
Global English
Right now about 1.5 billion people speak english.
The language has very little to do with England.
