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450
How the Celts helped us with the language
The Celts are the earliest Nation to live in the British Isles which from that left a huge mark on our language. -
450
The Romans contribution to the language
The Romans helped in creating the English language by giving us words that we use in our everyday life such as, win (wine), candel (candle), belt (belt), weall (wall) -
Jan 22, 1000
The First Recorded Alphabet
The first ever recorded alphabet was the hebrew alphabet. But In 1928 clay tablets were discovered in the northern Syrian city of Ras Shamra which gave scientist the proof that they needed to confirm there opinion. -
May 19, 1362
England makes English there language
In 1362 after the English people pleading they finally make English the main language of England. -
May 20, 1389
The earliest known will in English
The earliest know recorded will writtin in english happened in 1389. -
Mar 5, 1475
William Caxton
In 1475 William Caxton begins printing his books in English. -
May 19, 1476
The Renaissance
When the Renaissance first was introduced there was a man named William Caxton introduces the printing press to England. During that time he printed mythic tales, popular stories, and poems. -
Anglo Saxons
The Anglo Saxons helped make the English language by creating what we call "old english" also we still read some of there poems and tell tales of wild and heroic battles. -
Vikings
The Vikings gave us about 2000 new words into the english dictionary for example, anger, awkward, cake, die, egg, freckle, muggy, reindeer, silver, skirt and smile. -
The first ever recorded written book
The Egyptions made the first book when they started to use papyrus in 3500 BC
