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Around the year 450 BC the Angelo-Saxon's introduced their spoken language frequently called Angelo-Saxon or Old English. They taught us words like cow, house, bread and sword.
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Around about the year 800 BC the vicious vikings form Denmark and Norway, began to invade Britain. These people left us with words like husband, you, law and anger and places like; Tenby and Grimsby. ('BY' meaning village)
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In the year of 1066 the Normans came all the way from Normandy,England to invade France. They originally spoke an earlier version of French, that went on to become the high status language in England not long after.
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After no more invasions in England, English language became more popular than the French language. The English that was spoken around these times was (and is still called) Middle English.
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Since the 9th century books have had to be hand written in English. Well not until Mr. Thomas Caxton invented the remarkable printing press in 1476. It was a big hit back then.
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When England had finally stopped being attacked people thought that the invading words would stop coming. Wrong! In the 16th century words from Greek and France. This was because a lot of people became interested in studying books that were written in Spanish, Greek, French and Latin. Some words were Beef, Mutton and Pork. What a coincidence that they were all foods!
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Back in 1525 Mr. William Tyndale translated the New Testament Bible to English. This meant that people who couldn't speak or understand a foreign language other than English could finally read it by themselves. The churches were furious so they said that they wanted it to stay traditional and that mass should still be said the way it was before. This lead people to having to secretly print them elsewhere and then smuggle them into England.
