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Romans leave Britain and germanic tribes come in, 4 of our current week days came from the Anglo-Saxon gods, Missionaries brought latin and introduced it to English
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William the Conqueror comes to Britain and conquers it, French gets mixed in with English, French is used for more official business.
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Shakespeare invents 2000 new words/phrases, He gave English a beautiful side, Brought the idea of theatre, Created the word Alligator.
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Extended all throughout the world, Began a whole glossary of metaphors, Started some issues questioning morality,
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Invented words like cardiac, Concept of gravity created, Used latin in sciences until they stopped.
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English started colonizing the rest of the world, It acquired a many words from Africa, Australia and India, Every colony left new varieties of English to develop.
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Dictionaries generalized English so it would be spelled correctly, in 1857 the Oxford English Dictionary is written, It took 3 generations to finish the OED.
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The newest colonies used native words to describe unknown things, As more colonists arrived more words came into English, When movies and music emerged in England Americans used the words.
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Language reverts to type, New terminologies were used to describe internet things, Conversations became shorter because of abreviations
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Settlers got English started and it snowballed into what it is today, It has words from over 350 languages, 1.5 billion people speak English
