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Year 1066: William the Conqueror invaded Britain
- Many french words came into EnglishYear 384: The illustrated manuscript ‘The book of Kells’ is produced
- Is written in Latin which influences english languageYear 1348: English replaces Latin as the language of schools
- English is becoming more widespread
- English is becoming important for international communicationYear 1762: Robert Lowth’s ‘Short Introduction of English Grammar’ is published
- Clarifies the grammatical rules of English making it more structuredYear 1688: Aphra Behn, the first female novelist in English, has the ‘History of the Royal Slave’ published
- Contributed to English Novel writting
- Contributed to the letters of the English languageYear 1731: English replaces French as the language of law
- Since french is important, english adopts french wordsYear 1712: Swift’s ‘Proposal for Improving the English tongue’ is published
- Provides methods on how English should be pronouncedYear 400-500: The Angles name was mutated to Engle. ‘Engla land’ became the name of the tribes collectively and their speech was ‘Englisch’
- English as a language starts to formYear 594: St Augustine comes to Britain and many Latin words are added to English
- Latin words are becoming incorporated into the english languageThe launch of the internet
- Many new words are formed
- Emoticons are incorporated into communicationYears 1500-1800: The Great Vowel Shift
- Changed pronunciation of EnglishYear 1564: William Shakespeare born
- Shakespear invented 1200 new English wordsYear 1702 Publication of the first regular newspaper in English ‘The Daily Courant’
- Started the development of formalised news writing or journalism
-Year 1927: The first film, Fox’s Movietone News, is released in America
- English has major influence over film industry
- new termonology for film is created in EnglishYear 1526: The New Testament is translated in English by Tynsdale
- THrough translation from hebrew to english, some hebrew words are adapted into englishYear 1387: Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ is published
- Book was written in vernacular which was the Old English Dialect he usedYear 1275: French is the language of the court and law
- French words get adopted into EnglishYears 1000-1100: Only surviving manuscript of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf
- Has the written form of many old English words used by the Anglo SaxonsYear 1884: The first telegraph message transmitted between Washington and Baltimore
- English or languages can be communicated via morse codeYear 1755: Johnson’s dictionary of English Language is published 15 April 1755
An influential and famous dictionary that defined English spelling and meaningsYear 1476: Caxton sets up the first printing press at Westminster
- Written English texts can now be mass producedYears 450-480: First surviving Old English inscription in Runic letters
- Shows origins of where English letters are evolved and adapted fromYear 1611: King James Bible published
- Was directly translated from hebrew to English
- This influenced some phrasing in English langauageYear 1340: Geoffrey Chaucer born
- Rhyme is incorporated in EnglishYears 1970-1980: World’s first working computers launched in Britain and America
- People now learning computing termonolgy
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