The History of The English Language

      There are many words that are used today that have originated from Saxons. How did that came about? It came about because the "Germanic invaders dominated the original Celtic- speaking inhabitants, whose languages survive largely in Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and Ireland." And from that the dialects from the invaders which was Germanic and the Celtic- speaking countries mixed together and created what is know as Old English or Anglo-Saxon. "Old English shared its Germanic heritage in vocabulary, sentence structure and grammar with its sister languages in continental Europe."


         How did Old English changed into the modern English we know and speak? As the time passed Old English became the origin of Modern-day English. In between of Old English and Modern English is Middle English. Middle English is a bit more modern than Old English but not as Modern as the English we speak today." Most sermons in this collection are copies of earlier ones in Old English. But this one is different. It is an English translation of a Latin sermon in which we can see many of the changes that signal the end of Old English. The rhythm and pattern of the sentences are beginning to sound distinctly modern. That is why linguists have called it the first text in Middle English." Even today we still use words that came from Old English for example above, about, and, back, bake are all words with Saxon origins.