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Angles and Saxons contribute to English with vocab since it was more useful.
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With William the Conqueror, many french words were added to the English language since it was the official language business
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Chakespeare invented around 2000 words that were later added to English. These words were used in his writings.
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British empire expansion 1583-1914
Since English didn't have words for the things they found on the countries they colonised, they took native words from those places to name what they found. -
North America's Colonization
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A group of Scribes made a translation of the Bible for King James, adding multiple new expressions to the English language
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Scientist was discovering things faster than they could name them, so they had to create new words for those discoveries. They also invented words for the human body parts.
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Took 9 years to write. The idea was to standarize the way words were written.
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With the invention of Internet, new words were neededt o define things like downloading. Internet also brought the invention of expressions such as LOL, BTW, and more others
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English was adopted by many countries around the world and was shaped according to these countrie's mother tongue, giving birth to Singlish, Chinglish and many more.