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The English language first appeared during the 5th century.
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These tribes spoke a similar language, which is now known as Old English.
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Beowulf was suspected to have been written sometime between the 8th century and the 11th, though it takes place in the 5th or 6th century. The only known remaining transcript is dated around 1000 AD.
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The Norman Invasion caused a separation in classes, upper class men usually spoke French while lower class men usually spoke English. When English finally became the main language of England once more, the language had grown, adding a bit of French to the English dictionary.
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were written during the year 1392.3w3
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With the invention of the printing press, it became more common to have books or newspapers, because it made it so books were no longer hand written, therefore, they took less time and effort to make, making them more common and more accessible by everyone, so a written dictionary was more possible, making it so words were put on paper and more widely seen and acknowledged. People were now able to teach to the uniformity of one language.
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Some words had become "lost" in Britain for some time, however, they stayed the same in the American colonies because communication between the two was strict, if there was any, therefore, the "Americanisms" of some words are actually just the old version of that same British version of the word.
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Though it was early modern English and has many differences to what modern English currently is.
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Late modern English was developed and is what we speak to this day. Though there have been a few changes here and there, there is no real worry that the whole language will change again or in such as severe way as it has since the year 400, when it was first created.
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