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The History of the English Language
Research Question
•Why is the English language the largest in the world?
etymology
• The study of word origins
Text Source #2
• Works Cited
• Beers, Kylene. Holt Literature and Language Arts. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2001.
Source #1
• Engel, Elliot. A Light History of the English Language. Raleigh: Media Consultants, 1997
The Celts #1
• Celtic language first in Britain.
• Scots, Irish, Welsh descendants of Celtic
England
England
Old English 500-1065 AD
• Anglo Saxon Germanic language
Romans: Julius Ceasar
• He spoke Latin; He conquered:
• Romance Languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian.
#1Old English begins when the Anglos, Saxons, Jutes invade
England in 500 A.D.
• Old English is an Anglo-Saxon Germanic language
Then the Vikings Invade! #1
• Vikings from Scandinavia invade England in 793AD
• They speak Old Norse
• O.E.• (The Light History of English)• Light History.
Beowulf- Epic Poem #1
• First work of English literature
Source 1
• Almost every one syllable word we speak is from Anglo Saxon German
• Old English 500-1065AD
Middle English 1066-1550AD
• In 1066, William the Conqueror from Normandy, France invades England.
The Norman Conquest
England becomes bilingual during Middle English
• English: ox, sheep, swine, calf• French: beef, mutton, pork, veal
• The rich and upper class spoke French Latin, but the lower class spoke Anglo-Saxon German.
Chaucer was a 14th century author of The Canterbury Tales M.E.
Caxton invented the Printing Press in 1476
Modern English is 1500 to present #1
• Renaissance-rebirth of Greek and Roman art
William Shakespeare
• Used 21,500 different words
• 3,000 invented words
Shakespeare invented:• Words Shakespeare Invented• Academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse
assassination backing bandit bedroom beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained barefaced blushing betbump buzzer caked cater champion circumstantial
• Coldblooded compromise courtship countless critic dauntless dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitementexposure eyeballfashionablefixtureflawedfrugalgenerousgloomygossipgreen-eyedgusthinthobnobhurriedimpedeimpartialinvulnerablejadedlabellacklusterlaughablelonelylowerluggagelustrousmadcapmajesticmarketablemetamorphizemimicmonumentalmoonbeammountaineernegotiatenoiselessobsceneobsequiouslyodeolympianoutbreakpanderspedantpremeditatedpukingradiancerantremorselesssavageryscufflesecureskim milksubmergesummitswaggertorturetranquilundressunrealvariedvaultingworthlesszanygnarledgrovel
King James Bible 1604
1755 Johnson’s Dictionary
Good
• Good, gode, guod, guode, goode, goed, gowd, godd, guid guide, gud, gwde, guyd, gewd
• 7 years in the making. This dictionary helped standardize spelling.
France
Text Source #2
• Works Cited
• Beers, Kylene. Holt Literature and Language Arts. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2001.