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T HE HISTOR Y OT. T HE ENGL ISH LA N GU A GE The time: from about5000BC to the twenty-firstcentury and beyond.The place: a distant corner of southern Russia,the railwaysof the Unitcd States,the Caribbcan farms where sugar is grown' an airport in Japan, the chat rooms of the Internet-'and almost everyplacein the world today.The machines;the printing press,TV' the mobile phone, the computer. The people: Celtic travellers, Viking invaders, French landowners, kings, businesspeople,writers, singers,and millions of people like you or me. Bring them all together,and you havethe history of the English language,with its changinggrammar,spelling, pronunciation,and vocabulary.It's a story without an end, that involvesmillions of people.Somehelped to shapethe languageof the past, and others are making the English of the future. And one of those people is vou. . .

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