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History of the English Language, for, Marcelo Rodríguez Zapata …
History of the English Language
Middle English (1100-circa 1500 ad)
Duke of Normandy, invaded and conquered England in 1066 AD
became king
The Old French took over as the language of
Court
Administration
Culture
The use of Old English
many French words added
characterized
beginning of the Great Vowel Shift
Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"
collection of stories about a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury, England
Old English (450 - 1100 ad)
Germanic tribes came to the British Isles
spoke similar languages
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
mixed their different Germanic dialects
Several written works have survived
Heroic epic poem: "Beowulf"
Words derived from Norse include
sky, egg, cake, skin, leg, window, husband, fellow, skill, anger, flat, odd, ugly, get, give, take, raise, call, die, they, their, them.
The most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots
be
strong
water
for
Marcelo Rodríguez Zapata NRC: 5517
