i learnt this was the time period of middle english - early modern english where english is just beginning to sound familiar to what we say to but with less pronouniciation and unrecognisable words.
in the 12th century i found it interesting that language we use today was vaguely used back in this century. latin dominated education and the church and french was the language of law, as well as 10,000 french entering the language.
1476- william Caxton invented the 'Printing press' were mahcines were made to make and print books instead of scribes being used to write out the book. also, in this century East Midlands dialect had established standard english. spelling became more standardised.
1500- 1650, new used were being created by using prefixes e.g UNhappiness. a fresh interest in classical language and literature had begun leading to momentous developments in medicine,science and the arts.
i found it interesting that we still use words from the 12th century and the earliest book was made by RObert Cawdrey which included 3000 words.
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