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The Celts spread throughout western Europe—including Britain, Ireland, France, and Spain—via migration. Their legacy remains most prominent in Ireland and Great Britain, where traces of their language and culture are still prominent today. -
Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, and Jute tribes arrive in the British Isles -
Roman Britain is the period in classical antiquity when large parts of the island of Great Britain were under occupation by the Roman Empire. -
The Vikings came to the British Isles and for about a century the West Saxton dialect became the language of the British Isles and they used the runic alphabet. -
Christian missionaries bring the Latin alphabet from Ireland which is still used today -
The Normans conquered Britain and French became the official language of the Norman aristocracy -
French, Latin, and greek. -
English is once again the official language of Great Britain. -
Shakespeare contributes to the development of culture, literature, and language by contributing at least 1,700 new words. -
Grimm’s law, description of the regular correspondences in Indo-European languages formulated by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Grammatik -
Oxford Press, considered the most erudite and complete dictionary of the English language, as well as the main point of reference for its etymological study. -
The Complete Plain Words, titled simply Plain Words in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954. It has never been out of print. It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of HM Treasury, Plain Words and ABC of Plain Words.