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Welcumen- Welcome!
Hwanan cymst þū? / Hwiðer eart þū fram?- Where are you from? -
Introduced new religious words from both Latin and Greek
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They bring their own languages and become incorporated into society
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Establish a kingdom at York and begin influencing English
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Composed sometime between the 8th century and the 11th century
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French becomes the language of the upper-class and English is no long written for common purposes
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Acourdance- Agreement
Blasfeme- Blasphemous
Costage- Expense -
First step in the process towards restricting governments; first use of language against government
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Statute of Pleading makes English predominant; first speech delivered in English
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Written in middle English; approximately 17,000 lines
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First English monarch to be predominantly English and deliver a speech in English
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Allowed people to print in large quantities and spread word quickly
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Early:
Ye- You
Art- Are
Modern:
Buzzkill- Person or thing with a depressing affect
Cougar- Older woman who dates younger men
Viral- Circulating rapidly on the internet -
Columbus sailed the ocean blue and found North America which spread English to a new continent
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influenced the development of the written language
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If this hadn't been published, over half of Shakespeare's works would have been lost
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Leads to the declaration of Independence which led to America's sole identity
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Henry and Francis Fowler print first edition of The King's English which spreads it to all who can read
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First Dictionary Written by the Oxford English; large composition of a language