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In 1035 William became duke of Normandy after the death of his father Robert I. -
William landed in England at Pevensey with thousands of troops
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On Christmas day, he was crowned the first Norman king of England and the
Anglo-saxon phase of English history came to an end. -
The hundred year’s war started because of a series of conflicts by the house
of Plantagenet (England) against the house of Valois (France) -
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In the second half of the 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, contributed importantly to
the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant. -
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XV century- all the long vowels gradually came to be pronounced with a greater
elevation of the tongue and closing of the mouth and “The great vowel shift” took
further place -
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On 19th October,1453 The hundred year’s war ended when Bordeaux surrendered,
leaving Calais as the last English possession in France -
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XVI Everyone wrote without a regulatory organization and the Inkhorn terms were
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16th century. Modern languages faced three problems: Recognition of the fields
where Latin had been supreme for centuries, the establishment of a more uniform
orthography, the enrichment of the vocabulary so that it would be adequate to meet
the demands that would be made upon its under use. -
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From the end of the 16th century to 1611 -
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Anxiety about a language policy reacted with a new urgency in the second half of the
17th century. -
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During the early part of the 17th century, and persisting in some form into the early
18th century, there were a number of proposals for an English Academy. -
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Search of stability, strong sense of order, value of regulation, they
venerated Greece and Rome, refined and fixed the English Language -
To codify the principles of the language, to
settle disputed points and decide cases of dividing usage, to point out common errors
to improve the language. -
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