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.