Modern English

English, the language has seen massive periodical changes making it easier and easier after every change. Modern English is the English spoken after the Medieval Era. Modern English came into being after the Great Vowel Shift in the 1550. However, even modern English saw some vocabulary changes after. William Shakespeare’s English was considered to be early modern English.

Modern English has a large number of dialects spoken in different parts of the world. American English, British, Australian English can be co related to each other sparing some of the slang and unique words used by these separately. The current English is the widely accepted for of the language. This language though has seen negligible changes and editions in the past few centuries. Because of the diversity of the language, there were a lot of differences in the spellings used for words in different English speaking regions of the world. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in 1755, printed in England, solved this problem somewhat. This dictionary gave standard spellings to words which became recognized by all English Speaking regions. Noah Webster’s dictionary published in America in 1828 and had some differences of spellings and pronunciation of words than the British English Dictionary.

Eventually when public education increased the rate of literacy, more and more people started reading books in English and that’s how the language and its use became widespread. The other influence of increased Public literacy was the inclusion of words from different languages into the English Language. A word like “bazaar” is an Arabic word which is acceptable in English. The broader broadcast of radio and then the television, the increase of public libraries also helped the people around the world to pick up a Standard English vocabulary pattern and the accent. English is the largest spoken language in the world after Chinese. But the Chinese language leads the table only because of China’s population. So English remains as the most widely used language and hence it is accepted as the Corporate and the Diplomatic language of the world.

Linus Orakles
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