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What is old English?
500 BC: Celts, 43BC - 450 AD: Romans, 450 AD: Anglo Saxon Jutes (gave us alphabet/day names)
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What is middle English?
1066 - Norman invasion (gave us lexis for law and food; jury, beef), great vowel shifts
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What is early modern English?
1808: English is mother tongue, 1476: Printing press (starts standardisation), 1525: Bible, (not handwritten) 1550: prescriptivists (heart and lowth), 1550: Shakespeare
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What is modern English?
1746: Johnson's dictionary, 1870: Education requirement/act, 1884: Oxford dictionary
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What was the great vowel shift?
Long vowels shifted upwards and changed the way people spoke
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What is middle English?

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