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This was during the time of the vikings.
Anglo Saxon is everyday words like house, dog, and loaf.
About 2,000 words came from this era.
450 A.D. -
2,000 new words and phrases came from Shakespeare.
During the medieval times. -
The English Empire took words from other places they traveled.
During this time people had to explore to find new lands, and in this case words too. -
This is the time where the created the dictionary.
There was only 42,773 entries in it.
They've made many through out the years because there's new words. -
This was the time when the first email was sent.
This is also when people started abbreviating things to be easier to spell/say. -
1.5 billion people are able to speak english.
English is really a lot of different languages just put together to make words.