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Whatever happened to the Jutes?
The English language begins with the phrase Up your Cesar , as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in. 450 A.D Tribes such as the Angles and the Anglo-Saxon and Jutes. The Romans left their Latin language but the Anglo-Saxon
vocabulary was much more useful, like house, woman, also the days of the week that were named in honour of Anglo Saxon Gods. -
While they leave were away Christian missionaries stole and bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more Latin. The locals learned words like martyr, bishshop and font, along came the Vikings with their action man words like drag, ransack, fast and die. They were also into give and take , two of around 2000 words they gave English, as well as the phrases. -
The conqueror William Invades England bringing new concepts from across the Channel, like the French language, the Doomsday book and duty-free, Gauloise mutipack.
French was de rigueur for all official bussines (cunclile -council 1125, jude- 1290, jury-1400, evidence- 1300 and
justice- 1154)
Latin was using at the church, but the common man spoke English.
English adsorbed about 10,000 new words from the Normans. -
About 2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare and added to dictionary. He gave us handy words like eyeball puppy dog, anchovy and more show offy words, like dauntless, besmirch and lacklustre.
Shakespeare´s poetry showed the world that English was a rich, vibrant, language with limitless expressive and emotional power. -
From the moment British fist landed in America they needed names for all the new plants and animals, s they borrowed words like raccoon, squash, and moose from the Native Americans, as well as most of their territory. Waves of immigrants fed American´s hunger for words, the Dutch come sharing coleslaw and cookies, Germans arrived selling pretzels for delicatessens and Italians arrived with their pizza and pasta. America spread a new language of Capitalism. -
In 1611 the power that be turned the world upside down with the labour of love a new translation of the Bible. A team by scribes with the wisdom of Salomon, went the extra mile to make, King James translation all things to all men.
The King James begat a whole glossary of metaphor and morality that still shapes the way English is spoken today. -
They went to the Caribbean looking for gold, discovering the barbecue, the canoe and a recipe for rum punch. They brought back the word cannibal, from India the word yoga to be spiritual, from Africa they got the words voodo and zombie, from Australia, English took the words nugget and boomerang. With the defeat of Napoleon and the end of the Second World War British Empire gobbled up millions of square of people, leaving a new varieties of English to develop all over the globe. -
The most important Britain´s scientists were Robert Hooke ( 1635-703), Robert Boyle(1627-1691) and Isaac Newton(1643-1727).
The Royal Society was formed by invisible college. They spoke latin, worked about the Pomun falling to the Terra form the Arbor. Then, all they spoke English and could transform our understanding of the universe. They contributed concepts such as, acid, gravity, electricity.
Also they studied the human body introducing concepts like cardiac, tonsil, and others. -
The English expanding in all directions come a new breed of men called, lexicographers who wanted to put the end to this Anarchy. One of the greatest was Dr. Johnson whose Dictionary of English of Language took nine years to write. -
In 1972 the first email was sent, spond the internet arrived a free global space to share information ideas and pictures.
Before the internet, English change through people speaking it.But the net brought typing back. Conversations were getting shorter than average attention span. Also abbreviations were adopted in writing like BTW, LOL, IMHO,etc. -
After foreign settlers got it started, The English grew into a fully-fledged language all of its own. Before they traveling the world, via seas, via the high speed broadband connection, words from 350 languages and establishing itself as a global institution. All this despite a written alphabet that bears no correlation how it sounds and indecipherable system of spelling.. Nowadays, around of 1.5 billion of people speak English.