NAME : MURALI KRISHNA CLASS : 4 JATI TEACHER : PN.

SHAJARATUDDUR

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Good morning, today I am going to talk about this, what is happening right now, the English language. A language spoken by billions of people with many different accents and according to last years Harvard google study, a language with more than a million words growing at a rate of 8500 new words every year but we are getting a head of ourselves, where did English begin. Well for that answer we are going to have to go back all the way to the year 400 or even earlier to this little Germanic peninsular inhabited by people who were called angles. Now this angles began migrating to an island called Britain in fact there were so many angles there you may as well call it angleland, angle land , England. Before they had Latin characters they wrote their language not in letters but what are known as runes and everything was fine and dandy until 1066 when the Normans invaded and won. One of the biggest changes that still affect us today is that the fact that this new Norman ruling class referred to the meat they served using their own words like beef or pork, but the poor old Anglo-Saxons who had to tend to the animals still used their early old English words for instance cow and pig and until this day that is why English is one of the very few languages on earth that has a different name for the meat of the animal and the name of the animal it came from. English did this a lot, borrow words from different languages and other people and plop it down in the English vocabulary. So see English is really fun or should I say fun is really English. Thats right not like all this borrowed words fun can be traced back to the angles and the proto Germanic word fano which referred to a piece of cloth or rag. It eventually came to mean a piece of fabric like a holstered flag which flew in the breeze and then it came to just mean anything that was high flying or buoyant. You know like fun stuff. Singling out which English words were borrowed or ones, which were Germanic, can be a really fun exercise. Supervise is derived from Latin but oversee thats straight up Germanic. What would English sound like if we just got rid of all these words that did not originate from the angles. Well what you would have is what is known as anglish. Anglish is really fun to read because it is not really a real language its just a fun exercise that we can do nowadays. My favourite is a passage explaining atomic theory of course we cant call it atomic theory because for in stance the word atom is Greek which means something that cannot be divided any further so instead of

using the word atom writers will use a word like uncleft and instead of using the word theory they use a word like beholding. Now lets talk about accents. We dont all speak English the same way and as a confession I have to say I am absolutely terrible at accents. That was my impression of a British accent. Thats why I only talk like this. Luckily I read the science and young children are the best at picking up new accents. Now I am going to do an impression of how I think George Washington spoke. Yo, dawg yall going to vote for me and I just want one shot then Im one and done baby. No seriously father I did not chop down that tree. We dont know if he spoke like that because back at the time when America first became a country, the classic British accent did not even exist yet but this is a really mind blowing about what the British gave to America. Southern drawl. This people known as the cavaliers came over to America before it was an actual independent country and they brought things like the word yall, snickerdoodle, varmit and they brought the word aksed instead of the word asked. That is all I have for you today. Thank you for listening.