TAILIEUCHUNG - Building Vocabulary For College

The English language dates back to the 400s, when Germanic tribes, including Angles and Saxons, invaded the island that came to be known (because of the Angles) as England. The epic poem Beowulf was written down around 1000 in the Anglo-Saxon language, known as Old English. Middle English developed following the 1066 invasion of the Normans, who came from France. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (completed around 1400) is written in Middle English. Modern English originated in the 16th century | Seventh Edition Building Vocabulary For College R. Kent Smith Intriguing Facts About the English Language The English language dates back to the 400s when Germanic tribes including Angles and Saxons invaded the island that came to be known because of the Angles as England. The epic poem Beowulf was written down around 1000 in the Anglo-Saxon language known as Old English. Middle English developed following the 1066 invasion of the Normans who came from France. Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales completed around 1400 is written in Middle English. Modern English originated in the 16th century. The works of William Shakespeare 1564-1616 are often cited as the beginning of Modern English. Figures regarding the average American s total vocabulary vary greatly from less than 5 000 words to more than 20 000. One major reason for this is that researchers differ in the way they count the words. For example if a person knows the meaning of jump some researchers assume that the person also knows the meaning of its derivatives jumps jumped jumping jumper jumpers jumpy so they give credit for all of those words. Other researchers exclude derivatives so in the case of jump they would give credit for only one word. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog contains every letter in the English alphabet. This kind of sentence is called a pangram. No words in the English language rhyme with orange month purple or silver. Set is the English word that has the most definitions the Oxford English Dictionary lists 192 . Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioisis a lung disease is the longest word in the English language that appears in a major dictionary. Screeched is the longest one-syllable English word. Rhythms is the longest English word that does not contain a e i o or u. Strength is the only eight-letter English word that contains only one vowel. Indivisibility is the only English word in which one vowel occurs six times. Almost is the shortest English word whose letters all

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