The History of the English Language using the article of Laura Howard

That you know the beginning and the end of something doesn’t mean that you everything about it…

In this article Laura Howard wrote about the origin of the English language and the categories that divides the history of this language. The English Language is the most used language in the world not only in the normal activities as buy something also is the official language for the Internet. The English Language is the language of the most powerful nations including the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

The history of the English Language is divided in 4 stages:

1. ·         Old English
2. ·         Middle English
3. ·         Early Modern English
4. ·         English Today

The Old English is the origin of the English Language; English was originally spoken by the West Germanic people, who invaded Britain in the 5^th Century AD.  By the 9^th Century the dialect of the Germanic people or best known as the Saxons, appeared predominantly in the literature. In this stage the English vocabulary did not have abundance in the vocabulary.

In the Middle English is when English and the French became the dominant language with the English and this happened as result of the invasion of the Normans in 1066. They introduced the French that was spoken in the Royal courts. In the 14^th Century the English Language became the dominant language once again, but with lots of French words added to it. At the end of the period in 1204 the King John lost the province of Normandy, this meant that the English Nobles lost touch with the French, and began speaking English as their language once again.

The Third stage is the Early Modern English, in this stage many Greek and Latin words were brought from the Renaissance (1500-1800). Also Shakespeare created many new idioms such as "vanish into thin air", "flesh and blood" and "one fell swoop".

And finally the last stage, English Today. This is the stage that we are now living. Now a days there are lots of new words that specifically came from the advance of the science.

The rise of the British Empire has brought the English Language to the world, and even after the fall of the Empire, the English language still remains a dominant force, spoken for 1000 million or more of persons.

In my opinion I think that Laura Howard made an excellent job and she used in a really good way the sources that she found for this article.