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Anglo-Saxon vocabulary was much more useful.
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They stole in and brought more new words from Latin.
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They came with around 2000 more words.
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William the conqueror invaded England bringing new concepts like French language. English absorbed more than 10,000 words from the Normans.
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About 2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.
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A team of scribes made a new translation of the Bible into a language they all could understand.
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Britain was full of physicists. Science was discovering things faster than they could name them, so new words were invented.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Open University. (2011). History of English (combined). [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/H3r9bOkYW9s
