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History of English

  • Anglosaxon
    410

    Anglosaxon

    Words (everyday things) (anglosaxon gods)
  • Christians
    597

    Christians

    A hit to the locals with the latin words
  • The vikings
    800

    The vikings

    Provided with 2000 words
  • Norman Conquest
    1066

    Norman Conquest

    The duke of Normady later caller William the Conqueror
    Added 10000 words from Normans
  • Animals and Food
    1300

    Animals and Food

    The animals were named by English speaking farmers and food by French speaking people
  • Shakespear

    Shakespear

    He added 2000 words and idiomatic expressions as phrases
  • King James Bible

    King James Bible

    The translation of the Bible in Britain with Metaphor.
  • English of Science

    English of Science

    The science grew so fast that the new words were not able to be translated not even for the human body or physics.
  • English and Empire

    English and Empire

    The English started to travel around the world getting new words from the Caribean, India, Australia and Africa from 1650 to 1827 approximately
  • Age of the Dictionary

    Age of the Dictionary

    Dr. Johnson took 42773 words into the dictionary giving a lexichal order to them and a standard spelling ending on the well known Oxford dictionary
  • American English

    American English

    When the Britsh first landed in America they named the new plants and animalS then the Dutch, German and Italians borrowed new words and adding the fast growing of the country needed new words to call the new things.
  • Internet Language

    Internet Language

    The conversations shorted making ideas as: BTW, FAQ, etc
  • Global English

    Global English

    After all English ended up being non-phonetic and with a crazy spelling with 1/4 Native speakers 1/4 Second language users and the other half? Coming up with: HINGLISH, CHINGLISH and SINGLISH