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Great vowel shift starting from "a"
a--> e(i)-->i --> ai
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Great vowel shift starting from backwards c or "law"
law --> o(U) load --> u (luke) --> au (loud)
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Morphological changes
extensions (web) reduction (dog and hound) elevation , degradation
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Grandmother language to english
Indo European
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English Mother Language
German
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English Aunty Language
Latin came from Italic family
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English Sister languages
German, dutch, yiddish, danish, icelandic, Norwegian,
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English Cousins
French, spanish, Italian, Portuguese
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Norman Invasion
- Anglo-Norman Kingdom
- Normans in control (french)
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English borrowed 75% of its language from...
French
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Major Historical moments for the English Language
Old English, Norman Invasion, Early modern english, Modern english,
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When was the Renaissance
During the Early Modern English Period
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