Discuss how english spelling have changed from old to modern english ? aspects of language
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The Old English language, often called Anglo-Saxon, was spoken in England from 450 AD to 1100 AD. It was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons who came to England from what is now Germany and Denmark. Old English is very different from Modern English; it has many more Germanic words. It was rarely written down, and when written it was in runes. This is an alphabet completely different from the Latin alphabet used for English today. Old English grammar is difficult, and close to Old German. Latin was used by churchmen like the venerable Bede.Modern English (sometimes New English or NE[3] as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550.With some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using Early Modern English or Elizabethan English. English was adopted in regions around the world, such as North America, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Australia and New Zealand through colonisation by the British Empire.Modern English has a large number of dialects spoken in diverse countries throughout the world. This includes American English, Australian English, British English (containing English English, Welsh English and Scottish English), Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English, Indian English, Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, Philippine English, Singaporean English, and South African English.
The Old English language, oftentimes described as Anglo-Saxon, was delivered in England from 450 AD to 1100 AD. It was lectured by the Anglo-Saxons who proceeded to England from Germany and Denmark. Old English is very distinct from Modern English because it has several more Germanic names.
Modern English is the structure of the English language delivered after the Great Vowel Shift in England, which started in the late 14th century and was finished approximately in 1550.
Modern English can be recognized with the initiation of printing. Caxton’s adoption of an East Midlands or London variety of English for the earliest published books at the end of the 15th century devoted to the evolution of a regulated nature of the language, with corrected spelling and punctuation rules and accepted dictionary and grammatical forms which also used in daily life.
In old English, there were trials for names and adjectives which was followed by the middle English who appeared as very difficult from old English because the words were accentuated in a complex way. Infinitive of the words formed from "an" into the form "to"
And finally the modern English advanced were vovels became soundless and it was the foundation of the new words from Greek to Latin. Dictionaries started to appear and literature was enriched with new words.