Empire growed from the 17'th century up to 1920's. It was said that the sun never sets on British empire. It had expanded all over the world. In the colonies, English started to change, it had spread all around the world, just like the empire. It was leading country in the world for a very long time. It had strong economy and the strongest navy that any one had ever seen, so it was till the world wars. The British Isles, because of their good geographical position have been conqured only twice. And both occasions had a great influence on the language. First came Latin with the conquest of Roman Empire. Latin gave some terms to English and now it is a scientific language. Romans stayed for half a century, when they left, different Germanic tribes came and estabilished new kingdoms. They brought a new language with them. The Old English is developed from their Germanic dialects. After that, came Christians and brought new words like martyr, bishop etc
illuminate, absolute, humaine,immidiate) Old Scandinavian(12-14 cent)England had been constantly invaded(sisse tooma) Norveigns, Danes, Sweeds. Especially strong was Danes influence(nt, anger, fellow, husband, sister; to die, to call, to raise; ill, low, odd, ugly). A typical feature of Scandinavian words is sk(sc) skill, scare, scanty(kasin). French found their way to Engl from the Norman dialect. In 1066 Engl was conqured by the Normans. In the 9th cent they conqured the north of France and adopted the French lg and culture. The Normans occupied all the leading positions. The feudal nobility spoke Norman dialect, common people English, religious literature was written in Latin, fiction in French. French words reflect: 1)titles: prince, duke, sir, madam; 2)family:parent, oncle, aunt; 3)military: battle, arms, war, navy; 4)entertainment: pleasure, delight; 5)proffessions:taylor, painter, butcher; 6) time: hour, minute,
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