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in 1066 William the conquer invaded and conquered England
The Normans brought with them a kind of French
Displacement of the English rules
Start of ruling aristocracy
Class distinction
upper class who speak French words.
lower class who remain the England language.
In 1204 the angle-Normans lost the battle Normandy to the French king
The king of French order English subjects to speak English
as a result English was the official speech of England
In the 14th century a plague hit Europe
A half of the population of England died.
Many of the elite Latin-speaking and French-speaking died.
The black death
In 1362 the English language survived as the result of the plague
After some time in the same period the pronunciation of most vowels start to change
It was studied by Otto Jespersen
It was a series of systematic changes in the pronunciation of English vowels
That was called "Great vowel shift"
There were many changes not only in pronunciation
In grammar : in the endings of nouns
with vowels in unstressed syllables
in grammatical genders
At the end of the period, English triumphed but French was learn as a foreign language.
In the 14th century a plague hit Europe