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English becomes a language for all instructors in schools.
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Made English the official language of the courts and Parliament was adopted.
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Killed about a third of the English population.
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had an efect of branding French as the language of the enemy and status of English rose as a consequence.
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English was the language of the Uneducated pesantry many of the gramatical complexities and inflectiosn of Old English gradually disapeared.
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After being written for centuries recording the history of English people, this year his last entry was written.
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The Normans are decendants of the vikings, the word norman comes originally from Norseman.
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by William the Conqueror - Duque of Normandy and later named William I of England,
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During the regn of the Norman King Henry II and his queen Eleanor, (the 2nd half of the 12th Century). Francien words from central France were inported in additon to their Anglo-Norman Counterpart. d
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Words acquiered subtle diferences in meaning adding to the precision and flexibiliti of the English language.
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King John and England lost the French part of Normandy to the King of France.
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For 300 years Anglo-Norman French was the langauage of Kings and nobility of England. Also Orm started spelling words exactly as pronounced. used double consonants to indicate a short precedint vowel, three separte symbols to differentiate the sounds of the Old English letter yough, used the modern word "wh" for the old-style "hw" and Sh" for "sc", created a new and unusual phonetic spelling system.
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Words like abbey, alliance, attire, defend.. French words continue to stream into English at an increacing pace with more Frech additions recorded.
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Henry IV, Who came to the English throne, and whose mother tongue was English., and during this time, Anglo-Norman was the verbal language, however Latin was used for written documentation.