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te Angels and Saxons turn to Christianity and started using some latin words -
Some words were borrowed from Old Norse(vinking Language , which was intelligible with Old English -
Battle between the Norman-French army and the English army -
After the Battle of Hastings, Norman-French became the language of power, but the people of britain continued to speak English -
This is the year that starts the tug-of-war between Norman French influences on the English language
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People in England kept marrying and importing French woman, that bring with them a lot of French retainers, knights, servants etc.
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The Black Death killed so many peasants,then creating an economic tear for them in the next generation.
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When William Shakespeare began writing his plays, the English language was using words from other languages due to wars and colonization. Shakespeare expressed new ideas and distinctions by inventing, borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, known as neologising.
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