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A lot of things in the English language have changed; this is how you say a few things in Old English!:
Hello! = Wes hāl
How are you? = Hu eart þú?
Goodbye = Far gesund
Good Morning = Gōdne mergen
Good Night = Gōde nihte -
Venerable Bede was a monk who wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People which was a key source of information about Anglo Saxon settlement.
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This is known as possibly the oldest surviving poem in Old English. The exact date of the writing is unknown but is believed it was written sometime between the 8th and 11th century.
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The Danes (Vikings) raided England and established a kingdom at York. The Danish began to influence the English language.
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King Alfred of Wessex translated Latin works into English and established the writing in English. He used the English language to foster a sense of national identity.
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Also known as the "Norman Conquest" in the 11th century.
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Middle English might seem a little more familiar to English speakers of today, albeit strange. People used to say in Middle English "So moot I gon" when English speakers today would typically say "I swear". Another fun one is; "unblokeled is the male" which simply means "the bag is opened". To most modern-day English speakers, Middle English sounds like goofy gibberish.
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The famous revival of art and culture also brought along several new artistic terms that are still commonly used.
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The Statute of Pleading makes English the official language in England.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The stories run over 17,000 lines written in Middle English.
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King Henry IV was the first English monarch to deliver a coronation speech in English.
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The first settlement of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America.
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Modern English is what everyone has spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England in 1550. Of course English has developed more over time, but it has mostly remained consistent having many scholars writing books about grammar and dialect.
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William Bullokar wrote and published the first English grammar pamphlet called "The Amendment of Orthographie for English Speech."
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Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare. It is most commonly referred to by Modern Scholars as the "First Folio."
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As America broke away from Britain, the distance put between the two countries changed the language and dialect exponentially.
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The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse. The English alphabet was converted into Morse code, a series of horizontal lines and dots.
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The fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English was published at Harvard University Press.
