What is English?
by Lyly Ha
1. 16th century
1.1. Many new words and phrases entered the language
1.2. There was a common language in print
1.3. Books became cheaper and more people learned to read
1.4. 1604: The first English dictionary was published
2. Tribes
2.1. Jutes
2.2. Angles
2.3. Saxons
3. The Normans
3.1. Brought a kind of French
3.2. The upper classes spoke French
3.3. The lower classes spoke English
4. Celtic
4.1. Scotland
4.2. Wales
4.3. Ireland
5. Early Modern English
5.1. The Great Vowel Shift
5.1.1. shorter pronounciation
5.2. Renaissance of Classiscal learning
5.3. 1500-1800
5.4. Printing and reading
5.4.1. grammar and spelling
5.5. 1604 the first English dictionary
6. Late modern English
6.1. Industrial Revolution and technology
6.2. The British Empire
6.3. From 1800 to now
7. The difference
8. Where do words come from?
8.1. Shakespeare
8.2. Vikings/Tribes/Invaders
8.3. Other countries/Impenalism/Colonialism
8.4. Inventions
8.4.1. Industri
8.4.2. Technology
8.4.3. Science
9. Spelling/Standards
9.1. Printing puss (books)
9.2. Bible
9.3. Dictionaries
9.4. Abbreriations
9.4.1. btw
9.4.2. lol