2011年10月6日星期四

Girls High Heel-History of the English Language

Nowadays, people all around the world speak English as a first or second language. It's hard to imagine a world without it, but there was a time when no one spoke English. Long ago, the people in Britain spoke the Celtic language. When three Germanic tribes successfully invaded Britain in the 5th century, they brought their own language with them. This was known as Englisc and it gave us the beginnings of the English language that we know today girls high heel.
Languages develop and change over time and the oldest form of English seems foreign to the speakers of it today. The first type to be spoken is what we now call Old English, which was spoken in Britain from around 450 to 1100 AD. About half of the words we commonly use today came from Old English.
The change from Old to Middle English occurred after William the Conqueror invaded England from Normandy, which we now know as part of France. The Norman conquerors spoke something like the French we know today and they brought this with them to England. French did not overtake English, as it was spoken by the upper classes. The lower classes continued to speak English, although many French words slipped in during this time. By the 14th century whengirls pumps became the dominant language again, it included many French words and some of these are still part of the dialect we speak today. However, Middle English is not easy for today's speakers to understand.
Early Modern English began with British people having contact with people from all around the world. This also meant that many new words came into the language. When the printing press was invented at this time, girls boots led to a solidification of the language. With English now in print through books, pamphlets and papers, there was a standardised common language and fewer differences between the regions. The printing houses were based in London, so the dialect spoken and written in London became the standard for the rest of the English speaking people. Spelling and grammar were fixed and the first English dictionary was published in 1604.
The main distinction between Early Modern English and the English spoken today - known as Late Modern English - is vocabulary. We have many more words in our vocabulary than were commonly used before the 1800s. This is largely due to the Industrial Revolution, the introduction of more and more foreign words and new technology girls on sale.

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