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Instagram and Snapchat are a current form of social media, used worldwide, for people to post pictures with comments. Many new words have been shared and spread across these platforms and used by teenagers and influencers.
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Personal Blogs became very popular from the late 90's through the early 2000's and made it easier to spread new slang and other shortened versions of English words.
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The internet has a large significance in the English language because it introduced a new range of communication.
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The significance of the Second Industrial Revolution to the English language is its need for new words for new technology.
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Late Modern English is currently what is spoken among those who speak English. The only difference between Early Modern English and Late Modern English is vocabulary. Example Word: Yeet
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Shakespeare's first Folio was published.
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The first English dictionary was like glue for the English language because words and what they mean are now set in, and they are harder to change.
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As Early Modern English begins, Middle English comes to an end. Shakespeare wrote his literature in this time. An event called "The Great Vowel Shift" occurs and vowels began to be pronounced shorter as time went on. Example words: Author, Doubt
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Invented by Johannes Guttenburg, this creation made it easier to print books and newspapers.
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The Naval Battle of Sandwich occurred, and the English conquered the French.
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Middle English was English with some French words added. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are written in this form of English. Example word: Thou
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Creating a linguistic division between the classes, lower class spoke English, higher class spoke French.
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This was done by a 15-year-old viking named Leif Eriksson Day. He found it after being expelled from Iceland for killing a neighbor.
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Word Examples: Grubbling, Mugwump
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Englisc is introduced.
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