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410
Romans leave Britain
With the phrase "Up yours Caesar" -
450
Germanic tribes start entering Britain
Angles and Saxons who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon. -
591
Christian missionaries
They came up with new words from Latin -
1066
William the Conqueror invaded England
He brought new concepts from other languages, like French -
1337
The Hundred Years War
By this time English had absorbed 10 000 new words from different people, like Normans -
1564
William Shakespeare invented 200 new words
Like eyeball and alligator -
British people arrived to America
They needed words to name plants and animals like raccoon, squash, and moose. -
King James translation from the Bible
This became King James Bible. This translation was based on metaphors. -
British people went to the Caribbean
They went there looking for gold and a chance to really unwind, discovering words like barbecue, canoe, cannibal, etc. between 1550 and 1650 -
Scientists needed to communicate
Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton started working together in latin, but they didn´t understood each other so they invented words like acid, gravity and electricity to keep working on their discoveries. -
Dictionary of the English Language
Dr. Johnson wrote it -
British people added the word Yoga
From India -
The words boomerang and walkabout from Australia
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Email was created
New words came in related to internet and technology like download -
Nowadays 1.5 billion people speak English
English is conformed of 350 languages
