The lower classes continued to speak English but, with time, many French words crept into the language which came to be known as Middle English. Words like  jury, evidence, justice, liberty, journey are all from French. In fact, 29% of English words are from French and another 29% from Latin. While the names for the animals continued to be called cow, pig, calf, their meat was called beef, pork, veal.

The printing press was also invented around this time and people began to learn how to read. The dialect of London became the standard and spelling and grammar began to follow certain fixed rules.

Shakespeare is credited with inventing about 2000 new words and phrases that we still use today like eyeball, puppy dog, anchovy, alligator, lacklustre, dauntless, good riddance, flesh and blood, green-eyed monster, dead as a doornail, breaking the ice.

In America, English adopted many words from Spanish like ranch, canyon, breeze, cockroach.

From the Caribbean, English got words like canoe, barbecue, cannibal. 

From India, they took words like cummerbund, thug, loot, jungle, shampoo, punch, bungalow.

From Africa, they picked up words like voodoo, zombie.

There are many varieties of English such as American English, Australian English, South African English, Caribbean English, and Indian English. In fact, there are also versions of English that combine two languages such as Spanglish (Spanish and English), Chinglish (Chinese and English), and Hinglish (Hindi and English).