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450
Anglos and Saxons
Anglo-Saxon vocabulary was much more useful. -
597
Christian missionaries
They stole in and brought more new words from Latin. -
800
Vikings
They came with around 2000 more words. -
1066
The Norman Conquest
William the conqueror invaded England bringing new concepts like French language. English absorbed more than 10,000 words from the Normans. -
1564
Shakespeare
About 2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare. -
The King James Bible
A team of scribes made a new translation of the Bible into a language they all could understand. -
The English of Science
Britain was full of physicists. Science was discovering things faster than they could name them, so new words were invented. -
English and Empire
Britain went to the Caribbean looking for gold finding some new words in return. The British Empire traveled around 10 million square miles (India, Africa, Australia, etc) leaving a new variety of English to develop all over the globe. -
The Age of Dictionary
Lexicographers took 9 years to write an English dictionary which contained 42, 773 entries. Then the oxford dictionary took another 70 years to be finished ant it continued to be revised. -
American English
When Brits first landed in America, they borrowed words from the native-americans. Waves of immigrants fed America's hunger for words. Dutch, Germans, Italians, etc. Also, America spread a new language of capitalism. -
Internet English
In 1972, the first e-mail was sent and later internet arrived. The net brought typing back creating a new kind of English to make conversations shorter. -
Resources
The Open University. (2011). History of English (combined). [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/H3r9bOkYW9s
