chapter. two

At the end of the sixteenth century, English was only spoken by people from England, they were native speakers.Today, the largest number of people speaking English may be in China.A lot of Chinese people speak English as their foreign language.
The English language has changed quite a lot over the last four centuries. Old English sounded more like German for it was based on German, but modern English sounds more like French than German because England was once ruled by French. Those settlers enriched the language so Shakespeare could make use of a wider vocabulary by the 1600's.
Two people had great effects on the English settlement. One was Samuel Johnson who wrote his dictionary, and the other was Noah Webster, who later wrote the American dictionary of the English language, which gave American English its own identity.

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