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  • Late Modern English accumulated many more words as a result of two main historical factors: the Industrial and Scientific Revolution. Including the harnessing of steam to drive heavy machinery, and equipment and the emergence of new means of transportation.
  • British colonialism had begun as early as the 16th Century, but gathered speed and momentum between the 18th and 20th Century. At the end of the 16th Century, mother-tongue English speakers numbered just 5-7 million.
  • The English colonization of North America had begun as early as 1600. Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607, and the Pilgrim Fathers settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
  •  traveler and jeweler (for traveller and jeweller), check and mask (for cheque and masque), defense and offense .
  • Noah Webster is often credited with single-handedly changing American spelling, particularly through his dictionaries.
  • The language continues to change and develop and to grow apace, expanding to incorporate new jargons, slangs, technologies, toys, foods and gadgets.
  • PRESENT DAY In recent years, there has been an increasing trend towards using an existing words as a different part of speech, especially the “verbification” of nouns.
  • See you the next time...By: Ana Laura Cervantes Carrillo. ID: 201846991-
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