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Romans left Britain
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Anglos and Saxons arrived and they started to use the anglosaxon language that was more much useful.
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Christian mission came into the Island and restaured the latin.
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Vikings came into Britain and brought words like give and take.
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William the Conqueror invaded Britain and brought french. but latin still in churches
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He introduced more than 2000 words and phrases (1564-1616)
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England had too many territories and a lot of things should be named so a lot of words were incorporated to the language.
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As English people landed on America they needed to name things, cause almost all things they saw were new for them.
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King James made possible to translate the Bible so everybody would be able to read it. As an example: A bird in the hand is worth than two in a bush.
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England was full of scientists like HOOKE, BOYLE and NEWTON. Royal Society spoke latin at first but later they stared to speak in English.
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Lexicographers time. Like Dr. Johnson that contributed to a more than 42,000 word dictionary of the English language. then Oxford University came up with a 70 years work.
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New words arose into the Americans' vocabulary as the capitalism started to take over the economy.
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The first e-mail was sent and with it a new vocabulary came out as technology developed itself.
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Almost 1.5 billion people speak English and about 1/4 are native speakers and the rest EFL