This language English most of us now speak nowadays, well, it's almost very normal to deduce it comes from England, 'cos of the "Eng" in both the "prefixes".
Lol, kindly prepare your mind to be enlightened.


What if I told you it was called Englaland.

English is actually a language that really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD.
The tribes were The angles, The Saxons, and The Jutes.

As at that time, the people of Britain spoke an ancient Celtic language, but were pushed to the northern and Western parts by these Invaders (Angles, Saxons, Jutes).
Now here's the catch, The angles originally came from a place called "Englaland" and their language was called "Englisc". Which are now known as "England" and "English".
But it wasn't just their language that was fused into the British.

English is divided into 4.
Old English
Middle English
Early modern English
Late modern English.

As Bonus here's simple facts about English.

Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".

The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping" is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.

More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.

Read full post at https://theix9..com.ng/2017/12/EnglishandEngland.html?m=1

Bless up.

This thread make sense die. Mods abeg, this one na express.

The Question is "How did Britain beat Spanish, French and portuguese to become The Global Language?"

Did u study English or u just wrote from a layman's point of view

I speak a little german and yes there are a lot of similarities between them. Too many similarities to be a coincidence or a result of neologism.

NB: Use 'many' with uncountable nouns and 'much' with countable nouns. I almost made that mistake myself.

Nice One. But Why Are U Redirecting Us To Ur Site?

python1:
This thread make sense die. Mods abeg, this one na express.

Mods means??

Ebios:
Did u study English or u just wrote from a layman's point of view

Did my research Nd brought it down to the laymans view

Benjaniblinks:
Nice One. But Why Are U Redirecting Us To Ur Site?

Well, tbh it's to get more page views...but more importantly so you could see my other posts.

Which one is angles? Is it not Anglo saxons?

Theix9:

Mods means??

Meaning moderators should move the thread to front page. I like the topic and its content.

Henrodah:
Which one is angles? Is it not Anglo saxons?

My point exactly... It's a combo

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My point exactly... It's a combo[/quote


OK bro

kachi19:
The Question is "How did Britain beat Spanish, French and portuguese to become The Global Language?"

Due to investment in scientific research and also becoming the De facto language in science and also several other reasons also