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500 BCE
Celt Migrations
Language: Celtic. The Celts begin to colonize Britain. -
410
Roman Occupation
Language: Latin. Pre-English. First Roman invasion of Britain. -
450
Germanic Settlements
Language: Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Become Old English. Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes begin to inhabit British Isles. -
800
Viking Invasions
Language: Old Norse. Beowulf written in Old English. Britain first undergoes raids from the Vikings. -
1066
Norman Invasion
Language: Anglo-Norman, Old French. William the conqueror invades Britain. Canterbury Tales written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. -
Renaissance Mixing
Language: French, Latin, Greek, Italian. The age of Shakespeare in Early Modern English. He invented many words, which are still used today. -
Translation of the Bible
A Whole glossary of metaphor and morality written by King James. -
The English of Science
The scientists invented words like acid, gravity and electricity. To name their discoveries. -
The Age of the Dictionary
Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the english Language in Modern English. Wich becomes the first widely used book of its kind. -
English Empire
Language: Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Malay and American English. Leaving new varieties of english to develop all over the globe in Late Modern English. -
American English
From the moment the first British landed in America, they borrowed words like raccoon, squash and moose from the Native Americans. -
Internet English
A global space to share information, which invented words like download, toolbar and firewall. The conversations became shorter like lol. -
Global English
English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, invade and steal words. First traveling the world and then through the internet to our present.