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591 BCE
Christian missionaries
While Anglo-Saxons were away, christian missionaries brought latin to english.
The influence of Latin in English, therefore, is primarily lexical in nature, being confined mainly to words derived from Latin roots -
450 BCE
Germanic tribes arrived to Britain
Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons & Jutes) started flooding into the isles. They germanic languages they spoke became known as Anglo Saxon.
Anglo-Saxon vocabulary was much more useful.
And as a curious fact, 4 days of the week (from tuesday to friday were named in honour of Anglo Saxon gods. -
410 BCE
Romans left Britain
Romans left Britain -
800
Vikings arrive
Vikings came to britain, adding several words from old norse -
1066
Norman Invation of England
The Norman conquest under William the Conqueror bringing new concepts like french language. Which added french words to the language previously spoken there. As well as latin vocabulary that was used at churches. -
1300
New words
By this time, english had absorbed some words came from the french: " a la carte" "beef" "mutton" and "pork". The english absorbed about 10,000 words from the normans. -
1337
Hundred years war
It began the Hundred Years War (that actually lasted 116 years) against France. Born new word like: "army", "soldier" and "navy". -
1564
phrases were invented by William shakespeare 1564-1616
The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare(1564-1616 ) . He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. -
Translation of the Bible
Preachers read it at every church. It´s words, and phrases begat a whole glossary of metaphore & morality that still shapes the way english is spoken today -
The royal society was formed
Britain was full physicists, at first they worked in Latin. But after, they realised they all spoke english and they could transform our understanding of the universe much quicker. -
Toppling Napoleon
The britain empire globbed up around ten million square miles, four hundred million people. -
The oxford english dictionary is published
Dr. Johnson starts writing the dictionary of the english language, derivated that everybody spelt english as they want.
This dictionary took nine years to write, and it was 18 inches tall. It cointeined 42,773 entries -
First world war
Left new varieties of english to develop all over the globe -
Internet English
In 1972 the first e mail was sent and
brought words such as “dowlnload”,
”toolbar” ”firewall” 2blog” “pocke”
and ”reboot” -
Nowadays English speakers
When Brits landed in America they named plants and animals, such as “raccoon””squash””moose”from the Native Americans. The Dutch came sharing “coleslow” and cookies”. The Germans arrived “pretzels” from delicatessens. The italians with “pizza” “pasta” and “mafia”
