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English begin with the phrase "up yours Cesar"
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Anglo sax vocabulary was very useful at the time (house, woman, leaf, wear,) Four days of the week were named after the anglor god´s.
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Tripes came in (saxons, anglos) together they form ANGLO-SAXON) THE JUTES
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Christian misioneries took on funky new words from latin, like MARTYR, BISHOP, FONT
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Came the vikings with words like DRAG, RANSACK, THRUST, DIE. One of their motors was to GIVE AND TAKE
coming to 2000 thousand words the vikings gave to English -
William the conqueror invades England bringing new concepts such as the frensh language
examples -
cuncile to council
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clerc to clerk
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Parlement to Parliament
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souverain to sovereign - judge - evidence
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words like cow, sheep and swine were spoken by the English farmers but beef and porf came from the french
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English absorbed 10,000 thousand words from the normans 1300 to 1453 was the English war agaisnt the French
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jury - Justice ( at this pediod the common man spoke Enlish and it was anderstandable by speaking slowly and loudly)
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1550 - canooe was discovered
1550 - word "cannibal" was brouhgt
1640 - cumubund was invented in india
1650 -barbique was discovered
1670 - the bulgalow was created
1820 - yoga was created in india to help stay in shape while pretending to be spiritual -
about two thousand words and phrases were invented by William shakespeare (1564-1616) (bible, puppy dog)
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William came up with the words (alligator) smile, mile, dial, the nile etc...or the "hob-nob" shakespeare´s poetry showed the world that English was a rich, vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power.
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1583-1914 the british had gather words and expresions as science, bible and shakespeare and went world wide
went to the carabian -
Scientists became aware of the human body and came up with words like 1601 - cardiac
1601 - tonsil
1658 - ovary
1667 - sternum
1693 - penis
1682 - vagina made six education classes
1615 - clitoris -
Pilgrims landed in america
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Pilgrims landed in america and needed names for all the new plants and animals (raccoon, squash, moose etc..) 1703 - dutch brought the word "cookie" 1794 - the dutch came in and share coldslaw 1856 - germans became sellsmen of "pretzels" 1893 - "subways" came into the picture 1912 - american english drifted back across the pund as briths got the hand of their cool movies 1914 - breakeven - america spread a new language of capitalism
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A new translation of the bible had begun. a team of scribes went the extra mile and wrote this translation.
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Begun several of our sayings now a days such as: a leopard can change its spots; a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush; a wolf and sheep clothing is part of the spot; a fly in the oiment is annoiyng -
1626 - acid
1641 - gravity
1646 - electricity
1660 - pendulum due to all the experiments, scientists became aware of the human body and came up with words like
1601 - cardiac
1601 - tonsil
1658 - ovary
1667 - sternum
1693 - penis
1682 - vagina made six education classes
1615 - clitoris -
1626 - acid
1641 - gravity
1646 - electricity
1660 - pendulum -
britain was full of psychicist
Robert hooke (B.1635 -D.1703)
Robert Boyle (B.1627 -D.1691)
Isaac Newton (B.1643 -D.1727) -
The royal society was formed
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Lexicographers - a new breed of men: they had a question
What happens when people spell a word
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Dr, johnson created the dictionary (18 inches tall, contained 42, 773 entries)
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1827 - from australia english took the word boomerang
1828 - from australia english took the word walkabout
1850 - in africa they had the words budduo
1852 - from autralia, english took the word nugget
1871 - zombie was also a part of the african culture -
Up to the first world war, the british empirre had rounded up to ten million square miles, four hundred
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1857 - the oxford dictionary was invented (took 70 years to be finished)
1928 - Another version of the oxford dictionary was revised and is still is until today -
1926 - the words "merger and downsizing" were invented 1930 - freeways were created and named 1935 - italians arrived with the words "pizza, and pasta" 1937 - groovy jazz
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1972 - first e-mail was sent 1973 - the word "crashed" was born 1980 - "download" word was invented 1982 - "reboot" was a strong word to this time 1990 - the word "firewall" was invented
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Internet arrived or was created it if you will (free global space to share information) Conversations begin being shorter and shorter
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1998 - blogging- iniciated 2004 - poke - came to life on the internet chats, many words were simplify by tiping shorter and shorter
such as (if we´re honest life´s threatening accident was pretty hillarious) simply became "fail" -
Today about 1.5 billion people around the globe speak english
quarter are native speakers
quarter are speakers as a second language
the other half are people who can "ask for directions" assuming they speak english. At the end we have lots of english languages
we have- Hinglish- hindienglish Chinglish-chinese english
Singenglish-singapourian english -
In the fifteen hundred years since the romans left britain, english as share a unique ability to share,
absord, evolve, invade, or better said "steal" English came to take many words from over 350 laguanges, and stablished it self as a global institution. -
English has so many routes that it´s almost imposible to call it English anymore
