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Celtish
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-Romans occupy Britain for half a century.
-Push the Celts towards Scotland, Wales and Ireland. |
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Old English |
-(450-1100) -Angles -> Englisc -Saxons and Jutes -> Germanic |
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Middle English
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-(1100-1500)
-William the conqueror -French-> spoken by the court |
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Early modern English
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-(1500-1800)
-great vowel shift -colonization of America -renaissance-> Latin |
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late modern English
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-(1800-present)
-industrial revolution and technology led to more vocabulary |
