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HISTORY OF ENGLISH
CHAPTER 1: ANGLO-SAXON OR WHATEVER HAPPEN TO THE JUTES
As Romans leaves Britain, a lot of Germanic tribes such as Angels and Saxons came in, who were gave the term Angle-Saxon and Jutes
Anglo-Saxon word were much useful simple things in daily life
While they were away, Christianity came and bring Latin along and used some words from Latin
two of around 2000 words were given to English
CHAPTER 4: THE KING JAMES BIBLE OR LET THERE BE LIGHT READDING
translation of bible where a team put to translate King James Bible words
the new bible went from strength to strength getting root to the matter which was very understandable
it was a book where read at all church
King James Bible begat a whole glossary of metaphor and morality that still shapes way English is spoken today
CHAPTER 2: THE NORMAN CONQUEST OR EXCUSE MY ENGLISH
Conquer invades England bringing new concepts from across the channel like French where used for official business and Latin in church.
English spoke more slowly and loudly to understand
some words were English and some where French used
-English absorbed 10000 words from Norman
English took over the power when there was war between English and French which lasted for 116 years
CHAPTER 3:
SHAKESPEARE OR A PLAQUE ON BOTH HIS HOUSE
2000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare
His poetry showed English was rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power
CHAPTER 5: THE ENGLISH OF SCIENCE OR HOW TO SPEAK WITH GRAVITY
Britain was full of psychist such as Issac Newton
At first they worked in Latin talking about Newton's Law and realised talking in English, they could transform our understanding of the universe much quicker bybtalking in their own language
but science discovering faster than they could name it, so some words had to be invented to stop talking in sign language during their meeting
The scientist became aware of body parts and started to coining the new words
CHAPTER 6: ENGLISH AND EMPIRE OR THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Britain decided to take on tour asking only for land, wealth, natural resources, total obedience to the crown and a few local words in return
They took some words from Caribbean, India, Africa, Australia
All in all between toppling Napoleon and World War the British Empire left new varieties of English to develop all over the globe
CHAPTER 7: THE AGE OF THE DICTIONARY OR THE DEFINITION OF A HOPELESS TASK
Dr. Johnson the dictionary of English language which took him 9 years to write which 18 inches tall and contained 42773 entries to avoid the confusion of spelling
words keep invented, in 1857, a new book which is Oxford English Dictionary created which took 70 years to complete due to some problems.
CHAPTER 8: AMERICAN ENGLISH OR NOT ENGLISH BUTSOMEWHERE IN THE BALLPARK
when Britain landed in America they needed names for the plants and animals, and they borrowed some words from native Americans.
-When immigrants came, America shared some words from Dutch, Germans, Italians where America spread a new language of capitalisms
In America they just stayed in past where Britain moved forward where American say falls but in British is autumn.
CHAPTER 9: INTERNET ENGLISH OR LANGUAGE REVERTS TO TYPE
In 1972, first email was sent and internet arrived
Before the internet the English changed through people speaking it but net brought typing back into fashion
Conversation started to get shorter, and why bother writing sentence when abbreviation would do such as typing 'LOL' instead of laugh out loud
CHAPTER 10:GLOBAL ENGLISH OR WHOSE ENGLISH IS IT ANYWAY
When Roman left Britain, English had a unique ability to absorb, evolve, invade and steal.
When foreign settlers got it started it grew into a fully fledge language on its own
rightnow, around 1.5 billion people could speak english. In this quarter are native speakers, second quarter consider it as second language and the rest as learnt little to ask directions
So, now there are English in different variation such as Manglish, Chinglish and more
As a conclusion, the language has so little to do with Britain this days may well be time to stop calling things