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Alexander the Great was bron
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Many of the words passed on from this era are those coined by Roman merchants and soldiers. These include win (wine), candel (candle), belt (belt) and weall (wall).
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the iron age begins
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He was driven out of England by the Danes.
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Thousands of French words become embedded in the English vocabulary, most of which are words of power, such as crown, castle, court, parliament, army, mansion, gown, beauty, banquet, art, poet, romance, chess, colour, duke, servant, peasant, traitor and governor.
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King of France demands allegiance to France.
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black death hit europe
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English in schools is started to be learned
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Alliterative Morte Darthur, one of the last Arthurian romances in English.
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Death of the Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III.
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English now used in schools
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Wyclif Bible was created
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Many thousands of Latin words come into the language, most of which are connected to religion, medicine, law or literature. These words include scripture, collect, immortal, history, library, solar, recipe and genius.
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Death of Chaucer.
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Royal clerks use English for official writing.
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End of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) against the French.
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Words hated by Johnson, and omited from his dictionary, include bang, budge, fuss, gambler, shabby, and touchy.
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Johnson's dictionary is made.
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In an age of inventions and contraptions, of science & industry, of expanding cities & smog-gurgling factories the language must swell to accommodate new ideas.
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They were the most prominent group of the Germanic tribes that invaded England. The other two main tribes were the Angles and the Jutes. The word England is derived from the word Angles (Engles).
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Many of the new words derived from Latin refer to religion, such as altar, mass, school, and monk, but others are more domestic and mundane such as fork, spade, spider, tower, and rose.
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These raiders and settlers bring almost 2000 new words into the English vocabulary. Words derived from Norse include anger, awkward, cake, die, egg, freckle, muggy, reindeer, silver, skirt and smile. Many Northern English dialect words still bear traces of Scandinavian languages, as do many place names such as Whitby and Grimsby.
