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Modern English is the product of various Germanic invasions, the Norman conquest, the British Empire and much else. | Modern English is the product of various Germanic invasions, the Norman conquest, the British Empire and much else. | ||
− | ==Vocabulary== | + | == The structure of English == |
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''See main article [[Number of words in English]]'' | ''See main article [[Number of words in English]]'' | ||
− | English | + | As we saw above, by the end of the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) period the size of the lexicon was around 50,000 different words. By the end of the Middle English period (1100-1500), that figure had doubled and during the Early Modern English period (1500-1700) it doubled yet again to 200,000 lexemes. And just for the record, partly as a result of the Industrial Revolution which started in the late 18th century, and twentieth-century global expansion, it would double once more to the approximately 400,000 lexemes of [[Modern English]] (1700 to the present). |
== References == | == References == |