- Anglo Saxon vocabulary was much more useful and is where language originally came from.
- mainly nouns
- Christianity took on some of the language used from the Anglo Saxon
- the Vikings then introduced more violent lexis such as 'thrust' and 'die'
- words such as cow, pig and sheep come from the french speaking toffs
- the English absorbed around 10,000 new words from the Normans
- around 2,000 new words and phrases were created by William Shakespeare 1564- 1616
- Shakespeare came up with more technical words such as 'aligator',
- skakespeares poetry showed the world that English is a rich, Vibrant language with limitless and expressive and emotional par
- 1611 a new bible was written
the English of science
- words such as 'acid', 'pendulum', 'gravity','electricity'
- Due to science they then became more aware of the human body parts and names things like: 'Ovary' 1658, 'sternum' 1667' and 'tonsil' 1601
English and Empire
- 1583-1914
- went to the Caribbean for the chance to find gold, they then discovered the: the barbecue (1650), the canoe (1550)
- they also brought back the word 'cannable' (1550) to make there trips sound more interesting
- in India there was something for everyone they introduced yoga in 1820
- in Africa they found words such as 'zombie' kicking off the team horror film
- in Australia, English then took the words such as 'nugget' and 'walkabout' (1828)
- The British empire managed to inherit words from around 10 million square miles
- which led new varieties of English to develop all over the globe
The age of the dictionary
- doctor Johnson dictionary who took him nine years to wright from 1746-1755
- it contained around 42,773 entries
- all of the words in the book helped people to understand they were all spelt with a standard of spelling
- 1857- a new dictionary was made which was called the Oxford English dictionary
American English
- 1607- the Americans needed to borrow words to name there animals and plants so they took words such as 'moose', 'squash' and 'Raccon'
- in 1704- 1794 the dutch came to America and shared words such as 'coleslaw' and 'cookies'
- 1859-1889 the Germans came in and introduced words such as 'pretsel'
- in 1935 the Italians came in with 'pizza' and 'pasta'
- America spread a new language of capitalism
- American English then drifted back across the the UK, they said things such as 'cool movies' and 'groovy jaz'
Internet English
- in 1972 the first email was sent
- before the Internet language changed through people actually speaking it
- conversations were getting shorter, rather than writing a sentence people would use abbreviations (2004)
- some abbreviations came into spoken English such as 'FYI' and 'LOL'
Global English
- 350 words from different languages to establish one
- around 1.5 billion people speak English
- there hinglush, chinglish and singish
