The History of the English Language by Sammy Stein

The main facts about the article are only about the source of the words and some history of the source of the language, but what it interested me was the facts of the 1066 date and the “f” word source, so I put a little research I made on here.

The author is not a biased one and he makes educated guess about the English language: “What makes English unique is that , of course, over time the words have changed and become distinctly 'English' in their usage and meaning so it is only linguists who give thought to the root of commonly spoken words - garden coming from jardin (French),for example.” He states the point that, English is a mixture of many languages that are speak or were spoken.

The main purpose of the article is to show the roots of the English in deep and the source of some words. It also includes some facts of daily life, that help to understand how much people might speak English and why do they speak it.

This fact caught my attention so I included a little story about it and personal experiences:

“After 1066 French was spoken in parliament and other offices and became widely used (or an Anglicized variant) because the rulers were from the French court.”

It might be odd, but I remember from the TV program “Drake & Josh” when Drake was in an academic competency and Josh was telling him the answers with an auricular, one of the questions was that what important event happened in 1066, so I put on a little research on that year, and I found out that many things happened to the territory of England (The king died, invasions, etc.) That might have influenced in the establishment of the language in England and in the rest of the world.

He talks mostly about the origin of words and the countries who apported them, so I think that this article has very complete information, I would say that he didn’t omitted anything.

I heard stories of where the “f” word came from. It was supposed to come from a permission that you had to ask to the king of England to have sex. The permission had to be pasted outside the room in which you would perform the action and it said in big letters “FORNICATING UNDER CONSENT OF THE KING”. If you take the first letters of each word you can clearly note that the word is formed from there, but in the article says that it’s of Latin origin, so I got interested in that because I like people who think different of the rest of the persons.

In conclusion, this is the article that I liked the most, so I put a lot of effort into it, and decided to the same with the others, but I’m proud of this one, hope you like this last case.