Do You Know?

Introduction I was on my way home and was thinking what to post on the blog . Then , I was asking myself what can I say or do with English . At first , I though of posting the Japanese language as maybe we can learn some basic greetings and so on . Not only that , we have visitors from Japan and maybe could use it . Many ideas came to my mind but it was not suitable . Suddenly this idea came across my mind. I was thinking when did English was created , how and who. So here I am telling you guys what I found out.

Do you know how was English started? Well actually after doing some research in the internet English language was not created at any one time, but has evolved over thousands of years. The English of 1500 years ago cannot be recognised including language experts.From at least the time when the Romans invaded Britain in the first century, until late middle ages many European languages which had influenced the development of English .

After the Latin of the Romans, there was the Germanic languages of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Then the Scandinavian languages of the Vikings. And then the French of the Normans. Actually , I do even heard these languges so if you want to know more check it out! England had territory in what is now modern France for much of the later Mediaeval period and many of the Kings, Queens and aristocracy following the Norman conquest (AD 1066) could only speak French. It is also important to remember that these other languages were considerably different to those we know today and have also evolved.

I guess it is more relevant to consider how English has become more standardised. Today, as is probably the case through out history, people in England (and throughout the world) don't speak English in the same way. They both pronounce words differently and use differing sets of vocabulary. In some cases they even have different meanings for the same words. Over time these differences has been affected by such things as communication (travellers, letters, telephone, radio and internet). Other major influences such as books and printing presses have had a major influence on people who can read, as has the theatre and travelling poets etc, moving pictures, radio and television.

From the eighteenth century people who went to school have been taught from grammar which had some influence on how we perceive English should be spoken.
English, as with all evolving languages is always changing. As new discoveries and inventions are made so too must words be found to represent these. All the historical and social events contributed to what must be one of the most interesting languages known.