History of english Youtube video

• 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