How Language changed in the 18th century till present By Dani Warren & Jen Scott

In an age of inventions and contraptions, of science & industry, of expanding cities & smog-gurgling factories the language must swell to accommodate new ideas. In an age of inventions and contraptions, of science & industry, of expanding cities & smog-gurgling factories the language must swell to accommodate new ideas.

Academy - A group of people who were the guardians and rule-makers of the English language. It reached its height when Dean Jonathan Swift wrote his Proposal. The idea failed however, and gave way to the prominence of dictionaries Samuel Johnson - He wrote a dictionary, which he hoped would help refine the English language Noah Webster -Noah Webster felt that American English should be distinct from British English. He reasoned that if American English was distinct it would help to unify the nation. There were also experiences that only Americans have and can describe. Americans also use different definitions and words to describe things. He wrote the first American dictionary in An American Dictionary of the English Language was written to show that American English was developing along its own lines, and not conforming to British English. American English owes a lot of its pronunciation development to Noah Webster. He stressed fuller values on the unaccented syllables and uniformity of the language. Noah Webster Webster's Dictionary was published.Webster's Dictionary

1822 Grim's Law - Jacob Grim found that Germanic consonants are tied to Sanskirt, Greek and Latin. His law states that there was a sound change sometime after the Germanic language broke from the neighboring dialects of the parent tongue The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)- It was orginally known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (NED). It took forty-four year to compile the first edition and it is updated about every forty years.

The dictionary was created and this meant vocabulary became more defined. Many writers tried to ‘fix’ previous spellings and create rules for language. Colloquial words and other languages, apart from English and Latin, were viewed as inferior. Scientific inventions were popular in this time and the language changed to fit this. New words included biology, caffeine and chromosome th Century

This was the expansion of British and American English. Literacy skills and printed words became more international. In the beginning, grammar and pronunciation were similar to previous years but during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the social changes reflected the language as it became more colloquial and casual. - New words included; tellies, websites and compact disks. 19 th Century to Present

19 th Century till present A century of world wars, technological transformation, and globalisation. The language continues to grow, expanding to incorporate new jargons, slangs, technologies, toys, foods and gadgets.