Revising the Centuries

-The second person pronoun ye/you and thou/thee/thy

-Archaic and obsolete terms

-Huge increase in neologisms, known as ''inkhorn terms''

-Pillaging of latin and Greek

-Standardisation of professions 

-Archaic syntax, especially in the formation of questions

-The absence of the dummy auxiliary

-Non-standard spellings

-Inflections, especially -est and -eth

-Interchangeable letters i/j, y/i, and u/v

-Inflections especially -est and -eth

-Some spellings arising from difference in regional dialect (Although infrequent)

-Ligatures

-The Long s

-Large and/or decorative letters used to mark discourse structure

-Received Pronunciation is coined

-Neologisms slow after preceding century

-Prescriptive idea of ''correct'' meaning

-Capitalisation of nouns

-Recognition of only 2 noun cases (nominative and possessive)

-Who/what/that

-Children referred to as ''it''

-2 negatives equal an affirmative

-Don't end a sentence with a preposition

-Many of the defining features of the 1800s can also be sen inconsistently 

-Basically standardised this century (technically at the beginning, officially at the end)

-Confusion over the correct way to write compound words

-Emergence of convergence and divergence

-Elocution lessons become fashionable

-Not a lot of change from 1600s

-Quality and clarity of printed texts improve somewhat

-Coining of 100,000s of new words as the result of Industrial Revolution

-Neologisms created by borrowing affixation, compounding, abbreviation

-Influx of borrowed words from French (Highest rate since medieval times)

-Word class conversions

-Auxiliary verbs

-Negative adverbials

-'Double' uses of to be and verb tenses

-Nonstandard uses currently frowned upon

-Nonstandard plurals in noun phrases

-Adverbs missing the conventional lyending

-Comparison adjectives 

-Mayn't

-Greater use of the subjunctivbe tense

-The progressive passive is largely absent

-Get/got became more prevalent and were considered unappealing (Probably American influence)

-The split infinitive was identified and fought

-Very little change in this area from the 1800s-1900s

-The long s vanishes in print around 1824 and from handwriting in the second half of this century

-Continued creation of new words extending from the 1800s in the fields of science, technology, media and warfare

-Them as a Demonstrative form

-Comparative and superlative forms

-Singular forms of plural numerical expressions

-Alternative personal forms of you

-Possessive forms used as third person reflexive pronouns

-Singular form of be with plurals subject

-Of as an auxiliary

-Ain't and in't

-Using the same form of a verb across the present tense

--The same form throughout the past tense

-Irregular verbs display alternative past tense forms

-Verbs using a past tense form for s present participle never as a past tense negative

-Multiple negation

-Varying relative pronoun

-Absent ly on adverbs Complex prepositions

-Very little change in this area from the 1800s-1900s

-Glottal stops are proven and noticed in the speech of Londoners, having previously only been indentified in Scotland

-BBC English comes into being (1927-60s)

-Standardisation of printed texts

-Introduction of Times New Roman in 1931

-Increasing use of colour in printed texts 

-Further neologisms relating to technology and science

-Continued borrowing of new words, many from Asian and Middle Eastern sources

-Punctuation becomes less standardised, influenced by informality of social media

-Move towards non-standard spelling and text speak in informal settings

-Non-standard spelling evident in formal texts, depending on pragmatics

-Regional dialects become more prevalent due to a rise in divergence and nationalism

-Multimodal texts

-Emergence of emojis as a language in their own right