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The Normans spoke french, which is a language of the latin branch. This lead to, that many new words from french/latin "joined" the English vocabulary.
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More latin words entered the vocabulry.
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This made up the oppertunity to mass produce books, which made them cheaper, so more people could buy them.
The bad thing was though, that it became necessary to make up a dictionary, because Ebglish contained so many different dialects. -
Couldn't make a timespan...
But he changed the language. Again... -
Many new metafores etc. etc. etc...
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This was the first "real" dictionary for the English language.
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The independency made up needs not to look loke the Britains.
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Made changes in pronounciation, spelling and vocabulary.
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Made up needs for new words, who spread to all over the world
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Just because you can't have 13 events - it brings bad luck.
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Many new words from other languages enters the english vocabulary, if there are some needs for them.