The History Of English! By: Colin McFarland, Abigail Pilkey, Megan Rohrbaugh, and J.R Layton
By MrLstaff
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When English really started
The history of English started when 3 germanic troops invaded Britian. The Angles,Saxons and Jutes inveded, Britian spoke a celtic language. They were pushed west and north by the invaders. The word English was dervied by the Angles who lived in Englaland and the language was called Englisc. This is called Old English. -
Period: 450 to
English
The timespand of English -
Jan 1, 1100
Middle English
Middle English was created when William the conqueror, the duke of Normandy which is part of modern day France -
Jan 1, 1290
French added words
Justice(1154), judge (1290), jury(1400), and evidence(1300) were all added by the French -
Jan 1, 1348
English/Latin
English replaces latin as the language of most schools -
Jan 1, 1400
Great Vowel Shift Begins
During the end of middle English there became a distinct change in pronunciation called the great vowel shift where vowels were pronounced shorter -
Apr 23, 1564
Words added by Shakespeare
Shakespeare added 2,oo words alone to the English language. 1700 of these words are the most common used words. These words include smile, dial, the nile, tile, exile, mile, and alligator. The date above is when shakespeare iis born because we could not find the date the words were added. -
English Dictionary
The first English Dictionary was Published -
Late Modern English
In late modern English more words were added because there were two principal factors added, Technology & The industrial revolution, because of this, we needed more words. -
Words added by christians
The christians added the words matyr, bishop, and font.
