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The History of English Language

  • Romans leave Britain
    410

    Romans leave Britain

    With the phrase "Up yours Caesar"
  • Germanic tribes start entering Britain
    450

    Germanic tribes start entering Britain

    Angles and Saxons who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon.
  • Christian missionaries
    591

    Christian missionaries

    They came up with new words from Latin
  • William the Conqueror invaded England
    1066

    William the Conqueror invaded England

    He brought new concepts from other languages, like French
  • The Hundred Years War
    1337

    The Hundred Years War

    By this time English had absorbed 10 000 new words from different people, like Normans
  • William Shakespeare invented 200 new words
    1564

    William Shakespeare invented 200 new words

    Like eyeball and alligator
  • British people arrived to America

    British people arrived to America

    They needed words to name plants and animals like raccoon, squash, and moose.
  • King James translation from the Bible

    King James translation from the Bible

    This became King James Bible. This translation was based on metaphors.
  • British people went to the Caribbean

    British people went to the Caribbean

    They went there looking for gold and a chance to really unwind, discovering words like barbecue, canoe, cannibal, etc. between 1550 and 1650
  • Scientists needed to communicate

    Scientists needed to communicate

    Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton started working together in latin, but they didn´t understood each other so they invented words like acid, gravity and electricity to keep working on their discoveries.
  • Dictionary of the English Language

    Dictionary of the English Language

    Dr. Johnson wrote it
  • British people added the word Yoga

    British people added the word Yoga

    From India
  • The words boomerang and walkabout from Australia

    The words boomerang and walkabout from Australia

  • Email was created

    Email was created

    New words came in related to internet and technology like download
  • Nowadays 1.5 billion people speak English

    Nowadays 1.5 billion people speak English

    English is conformed of 350 languages