English

Question 1

What happened in 1066

Answer 1

French dude defeated English dude and became King of England, made the English language lose a lot of the special characters and heavily influenced the English language with a lot of French aspects

Question 2

Middle English

Answer 2

1100-1500, French retains its position as prestige language in England

Question 3

The Great Vowel Shift

Answer 3

1400-1600, systematic shift in pronunciation

Question 4

Early Modern English

Answer 4

1450-1650, think Shakespeare, spelling is very similar to Modern Day English but pronunciation changed - silent letters were said then

Question 5

Modern English

Answer 5

1600AD-now, grammatical endings reduced to the point that only a few exist (-s, -er, -est, -ed), English has two modern forms (American, British)

Question 6

William Caxton

Answer 6

1420ish-1490ish, one of the first printers in English; egges, eyren