Old English
Old English took place during this period.
What is 450-1150 or 5th century - 12th century
Middle English took place during this period.
What is 1150-1500 or 12th century - early 16th century
Early Modern English took place during this period.
What is 1500-1700 or early 16th century - early 18th century.
Modern English took place during this period.
What is 1700-present day or early 18th century - present day.
What is 20 Grand Slam titles?
Britain was invaded by these Germanic tribes in the 5th century.
What are the Angles, Jutes and Saxons?
This battle caused a change in the ruling class in Britain and is responsible for the French influence on the English language.
What is the Battle of the Hastings?
The period between 1500 and 1650 is also known as...During this time many foreign words were borrowed freely for words that did not exist in English.
What is the Renaissance
During this period of time there was an increasing demand on the codification of Standard English.
What is the 17th and 18th century?
The number of teeth humans have.
What is 32 teeth?
The term given to the number of Kingdoms during the Anglo-Saxon ruling.
What is the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy (Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex).
Latin, French and English were all used during the Middle English period, but for what purpose?
Latin used as a second language by monks, diplomats and scholars, and written language of official documents, chronicles, and the church.
French was the mother tongue of the conquerors and first language of the aristocracy/royalty of England .
English most widely used by common people.
The end of the Middle English period and thus the beginning of the Early Modern period is marked by what?
What is the introduction of the printing press in the year 1476 by William Caxton?
The colonial expansion of England was responsible for the language being spread across the globe. During what century did the colonial expansion begin?
What is the 17th century?
Zero degrees Celsius is how much in Fahrenheit.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
The ways in which Old English differ from Modern English. (at least 3 ways).
What is grammatical gender (nouns have masculine, feminine or neuter gender), what is case endings (nominative, accusative, genitive or dative), what is verb endings, what is inflected language, what is freer word order, what is Germanic vocabulary.
The year in which the English parliament was opened for the first time in English.
What is 1362?
A series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
Name three technological inventions which affected English in direct ways.
What is the telephone, television and computer or telegraph.
The Latin word for Earth.
What is terra?
He opposed the Vikings from continuing their conquer on Britain.
Who is King Alfred of Wessex?
Courses and textbooks on Middle English often start with the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Name the chronicle.
What is the Peterborough Chronicle?
How did the perception of/attitude towards the English language change during the Early-Modern period and what was an important factor in causing this change of attitude?
What is English being criticised as being vulgar and barbarous, to being perceived as eloquent. Partial responsibility for this change in attitude comes from the translation of important works and the expansion of vocabulary by borrowing new terms.
What is meant with the term ascertainment.
What is the need for grammar books and dictionaries to lay down the rules of the correct use of lexical items and rules of grammar.
The total number of Olympic medals Michael Phelps won in his career.
What is 28 medals?