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It went from 450 to 1100 CE
What period did Old English cover?
What language was brought in Britain by the Romans?
Latin
It went from 1100 to 1450 CE
Middle English
What language went from 1450 to 1750 in Britain?
Early Modern English
What language went from 1750 to the present?
Late Modern English
These Germanic tribes came from today’s Denmark and northern Germany, crossed the North Sea and invaded Britain
The Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes
What were the inhabitants of Britain called around 5th century?
Britons
Which duke conquered England in 1066?
William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy
What language did the Normans introduce in England?
French
Another name for Late Modern English
Current Standard English
What language did the Britons speak?
They spoke Celtic dialects
What language did the invaders speak?
Anglo-Saxon
About half of the most common words in Modern English have their roots in the…
Old English
What resulted from a mixing up of French, Latin and Old English?
Middle English
What technological breakthrough influenced the Lexis of Late Mordern English?
The First Industrial Revolution
What language was in use among aristocracy and clergy in the 5th century in Britain?
Latin
A series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700
Great Vowel Shift
What became the standard language used by Shakespeare in the 17th and 18th centuries?
The dialect of London
Which translator invented the printing press in 1476?
William Caxton
Pride and Prejudice, Late Modern English
An epic poem in Old English dating back to the 8th century
Beowulf
What language is a branch of the Indo-European language?
Anglo-Saxon
When did Shakespeare publish a famous tragedy about a famous couple Eritrean in Early Modern English? What’s the title?
1597 - Romeo and Juliet
What caused the strandardization of written language?
The invention of the printing press
What international element enriched the vocabulary of Late Modern English?
The foreign words coming from different countries in the colonial period of the British Empire