The history of English

1. Modren English (1500-Present )

1.1. Early Modren English (1500-1800)

1.1.1. started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter.

1.1.2. Standardization of language through printing .

1.1.3. Grammar and spelling have been fixed

1.1.4. In 1604 the first English dictionary was published.

1.1.4.1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

1.2. Late modren (1800-present )

1.2.1. Two principal factors to many more words in later modren English

1.2.1.1. the Industrial Revolution and technology.

1.2.1.2. The British Empire controlled a quarter of the Earth's surface.

2. Old English ( 450 - 1100 AD )

2.1. germanic tribes spoke similar laguage.

2.2. Difficulty to express oneself idiomatically.

2.3. The Indo-European family and language .

3. Middle English ( 1150 - 1500 )

3.1. In 1066 William the Conqueror invaded and conquered England.

3.2. the Normans brought with them a kind of French.

3.3. It was the language of the great poet Chaucer

3.4. The laguage of the Royal court .

3.5. Loss of grammatical gender