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Julius Caesar heads first Roman invasion.
They left not much of their Latin language but a lot of Germanic tribes arrived after them. -
They came with more simple useful vocabulary for simple everyday things. E.g. house, woman...
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They brought the jumble sales and with it, new latin words like "Bishop" or "font"
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Viking brought action-man words like ransack, die, give and take and the phrase "watch out for that man".
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William the Conqueror brought french words for all official business like "judge, justice or evidence" but Latin was still used for Christian ceremonies.
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English took words all over the globe during the empire travels leaving new varieties of the language around it.
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Shakespeare's poetry showed the world the rich, expressive, vibrant and emotional power of English language with its new expressions.
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When the British landed in America adopted native American words for the new plants and animals and then Dutch, German and Italian vocabulary were added to.
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The new translation of the Bible emerged with a meaningful root message comprehension. It was handy and adopted all along Britain and developed a whole metaphoric and moral glossary still used.
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When they formed the group, they realize that using their own language (no Latin) would transform our universe understanding much quicker and the new scientific discoveries were named in English too.
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It was a 42,773 entries with the standard spelling.
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Words kept being invented after the 1sr dictionary but after 70 years later we got the revised new dictionary.
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Technology brought Internet and with it new words, abbreviations and acronyms.