https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3 en-us 2022-03-10 09:06:01 UTC 2025-11-23 02:10:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cd.png 21300466 https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3/wish/2087945716 It evolved from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who landed in Britain in the 5th century.]]> 2022-03-10 09:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3/wish/2087945716 21300466 https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3/wish/2087955576 French has had a significant influence on English, particularly in terms of lexicon, syntax, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation. After the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, when Old French, notably the Old Norman dialect, became the language of the new Anglo-Norman court, administration, and elites, much of the French vocabulary in English entered the language.

• Government and social class (revenue, authority, realm, duke, count, marquis, servant, peasant)
• Church (religion, sermon, prayer, abbey, saint, faith, pray, convent, cloister)
• Law (justice, crime, jury, pardon, indict, arrest, felon, evidence)
• War (army, navy, battle, garrison, captain, sergeant, combat, defense)
• Fashion (gown, robe, frock, collar, satin, crystal, diamond, coat, embroidery)
• Food (feast, taste, mackerel, salmon, bacon, fry, mince, plate, goblet)
• Learning and medicine (paper, preface, study, logic, surgeon, anatomy, stomach, remedy, poison)

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• Most words with tion ending in English end with ción in Spanish:  (invitation/invitación, occupation/occupación, conversation/conversación).
•  Nouns with or and our endings are often identical in both languages: (doctor/doctor, tractor/tractor, interior/interior)
• Many nouns and adjectives in English with al endings are often identical of Spanish :(animal/animal, capital/capital, hospital/hospital)
• Nouns with ist ending in English end with ista in Spanish: (artist/artista, dentist/dentista, novelist/novelista)
• English nouns with ty endings end with dad in Spanish: (variety/variedad, society/sociedad, electricity/electricidad).

]]> 2022-03-10 09:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3/wish/2087986175 21300466 https://padlet.com/21300466/ivnzio4y5xuc3ve3/wish/2088012280 he Greek influence on the English language is very closely bound up with the Latin as it is through Latin or in Latinized forms that Greek words have found their way into the English language. Almost all Greek terms have found their way into English through learned technical or scientific usage.

• phobia (fear of), as in arachnophobia – the fear of spiders
• micro (small), as in microscopic – so small it's hard to see
• demos (people) as in democracy – government by the people

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