El Idioma Ingles

The english language
The English language is a West Germanic language that emerged in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and lasted for what would become the South East of Scotland under the influence of the Kingdom of Northumbria. Through the influence of economic, military, political, scientific, cultural and colonial Britain and the United Kingdom since the eighteenth century, via theBritish Empire, and the United States since the mid-twentieth century, English has been widely reported worldwide, becoming the main language of international discourse regiones.La lingua franca in many English language is widely studied as a second language is the official language of many Commonwealth countries and is one of the official languages ​​of the Union numerous European and worldorganizations. It is the third most widely spoken native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages ​​and dialects, now collectively called Old English or Anglo-Saxon, who were taken to the east coast of Britain by Germanic settlers, Anglo-Saxons, to the V century AD The English word derives from Anglos.A significant number ofEnglish words are built on the Latin roots, as this was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and European intellectual life during siglos. The English language was then influences Norse Viking invasions because of Britain in the eighth and ninth centuries.
The Norman conquest of England in the eleventh century led to important loan words with Norman language, and vocabulary and spellingconventions began to give it a superficial appearance of closely related languages ​​romances to what by then had become the English medium. The great vowel shift that began in southern England in the fifteenth century is one of the historical events that marked the emergence of Modern English from Middle English.
Due to the significant uptake of several European languages ​​throughout history, modernEnglish has a very large vocabulary. The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 250,000 different words, not including many technical terms and scientific jargon.
Date of the edition of the first dictionary
One of the first scholars to recognize that the dictionary represents the authority of a nation was united and strong Nebrija, who considered companion of empire. Three centuries later,Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, raised to the Académie française in 1795, after a trip to the United States in 1797 where the government of John Adams was accused of spy sent by France and threw it said the first book in a nation is a dictionary of their language. Noah Webster paid attention and in 1806, thirty years after the U.S. declared its independence, he published the "first book" of theyoung nation: A Dictionary of the English compendious Language. This is a deeply dictionary Webster independence in which divorced the American spelling of the British and where he faced, tooth and nail, the most respected lexicographer of the English language: Samuel Johnson, author of A Dictionary of the English Language (1775 ), considered the first modern dictionary. The dictionary, therefore,has never been merely a book but the book is secular, single and authoritative.
Vocabulary
1. EMERGED: to rise or come forth from or as if from water or other liquid.
2. KINGDOM: a state or government having a king or queen as its head.
3. BECOME: to be suitable or necessary to the dignity, situation, or responsibility of.
4. UNDER: below or beneath something.
5. INFLUENCE: aperson or thing that exerts influence.
6. THROUGH: in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other.
7. SINCE: from then till now.
8. MID: being at or near the middle point of.
9. WIDELY: to a wide extent.
10. SPREAD: to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface.
11. MAIN: chief in size, extent, or importance.
12. DISCOURSE: communication of...