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By the 13th century, over 20,000 words entered the English Language, mainly Latin and French
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French words enter the English Language at this time and brooch, action, forest, foreign and romance.
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The English language becomes the official language of the courts - after Edward III addressed this to parliament.
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Created by Wiliam Caxton.
Latin words started to enter the English Language once more, with words such as conspiracy, popular, solar and ornate.
Scottish English began to have a distinct dialect and created new words like pinkie, aye, brae and burn. -
It was a time for inventions for new words as writers couldn't find appropriate terms: new terms came into use here, under new terms such as archer, appetite, buckt, certain, clergy and story.
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American English loaned words from Indian languages as well as immigrant groups.
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The King James Bible was published, which influenced English speech and writing - even now, at the present day.
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The lexicography [1600 - 1800] craze came from Nathaniel Bailey's "Universal Eymological English Dictionary" led to more dictionaries being printed like Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language" These dictionaries expanded the lexis within the England and influenced the education in UK and USA.
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Published by Nathaniel Bailey - it started to the craze for the dictionaries.
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Published by Samuel Johnson, in 1755, it continued the craze for the lexicography.
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There was a frantic need for lexis to be learnt in order to describe developments and science and technology. New terms came into use such as ethnology, carcinology, caffeine, electron, apatite and beri beri.
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Was published by Robert Lowth in 1762 and influeneced education in English speaking nations such as UK and USA.
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Written by Lindley Murrary this also influenced education and alot of her work became standard words.
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In America, Noah Webster wrote "American Dictionary of the English Language" to define the itentity of the new nation.
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The BBC is established in 1922 and reaches across Britain, using the standard English lexis.
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The first official Oxford Dictionary was published - showing all of the official words of the English Language.
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In the Twentieth century, Engilsh emerged as a world language and therefore variations of their words. Due to the expansion of the language, more words have entered throughout the 20th and 21st centuries such as supermarket, chav, sudoku, alcopop, ceasefire and microchip.
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During the Anglo Saxon Invasion, words were borrowed from Latin such as candle, cucumber, elephant, street and wine.
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1800 Scandinavian words came into the English Language such as awkward, freckle, scowl, sister, weak and widow and the Germanic language.
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