William made England bringing new concepts across the channel.
1337
The war of the hundred years lasted 116 years, and English took power as the important language.
1500
Since Romans left Britain English has shown a unique ability to absorb, evolve, involved and steal.
1550
Canoe and Cannibal was invented
1564
2000 new phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.
1564- 1616
Britain World tour for natural resources to the crown and few local words in return.
1583-1914
Cardiac and Tonsil were invented.
Native americans borrowed words for the animals and plants such as: "racoon" " squash" "moose"
The King James Bible introduced with the bible.
The word clitoris was invented
Word acid was invented
Word gravity was invented
Word electricity was invented
Barbecue was invented
The word ovary was invented
The royal society was formed out of the invisible college.
Word Pendulum was created
The word sternum started to exist
Word vagina was discovered
The word Penis was invented
The Dutch brought cookies
Doctor Johnson dictionary took him nine years to write it contained 42,773 words.
1746-1755
Between toppling Napoleon and the World War, the British Empire gubbled ten million square miles
1783-1924
The Dutch brought coleslaw
Yoga was invented
Walkabout was invented
Vodoo was invented
Nugget was invented
Germanies arrived selling pretzels with delicatessens
A new book started that would become the Oxford English dictionary
Wore "chip with color"
Zombie was invented
Italians arrived with pasta
And "mafia" started
Subways were created
America spread a new language for capitalism
Wore "blue chip"
Parking lots were created
Merge was created
Continued to be revised, since proving the idea you can stop people making up words.
Freeways were created
As Brits got the hang of their cool movies
Their grovy jazz
Italians arrived with the pizza
The first email was sent
Nobody ever had to download anything before let alone use a toolbar
And the downsizing
Someone set a firewall
A free global space to share information arrived
Right now around 1.5 billion people speak Enlish, a quarter are native speakers, a quarter speak it has their second language. And half are able to ask for direction to go to a swimming pool.