miércoles, 14 de marzo de 2012

glossary

jumble: To mix things in a confoused way.
hotpot: A stew of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in the oven and in a dish with a lid.
gallimaufry: A kind of stew, made up of scraps of various kinds. Sea term, and probably meaning the galley scraps.
literacy: The ability to read and write: basic/adult literacy.
dialect: The form of a language used in part of a country or by a class of people with grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language.
creole: A language formed by a mixing of two others language, and used as the main language in the community in which it is spoken.

history of ennglish

Old English (450-1100 AD ):
The Old English was spoken by the anglo-saxons, it was similar to the classical latin.

Middle English (1100-1500 AD):
During this time the low class spoken English and the court spoke French, this happened because William the conqueror conquered them.

Early Modern English (1500-1800 AD):
A lot of new words and frases entered the language, there was also a command language for the literature.


Late Modern English (1800-Present):
The difference of this English and the Early Modern Englisk is the amont of words because they needed new words for the industrial revolution.