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Cow and sheep from the English speaking farmers became beef, pork from the French speaking
English absorbed around 10,000 new words from the Normans -
They gave us around 2000 words like the word die
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language spoken around 500 bce
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2000 new words were invented by William Shakespeare, words like eyeball and alligator where invented by him and he also showed the world that English is a rich language
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First they went to the Caribbean looking for gold but they discovered words like BBQ (1650 c), India the word yoga (1820) Africa words like zombie (1817) And from Australia they got the word nugget (1852)
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Borrowed words like raccoon from native Americans
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He gave a new translation to the nowadays Bible
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They started working with Latin and they realized they needed to talk in their language so words like electricity (1646) and pendulum (1660) and human body words like cardiac (1601) and ovary (1658)
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took 9 years to write the dictionary
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The dutch came sharing coleslaw and cookies
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Arrived with pretzels
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Words kept being invented and this book came out and it took another 70 years to be finished
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Pizza (1935) and pasta and the Italian mafia of course.
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everyone was worried about the break even, brits got the hang of their cool movies (1933) and groovy jazz (1913)
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Limited conversation because of abbreviations like "blog" (1998)
BTW; FYI, LOL
