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Early Modern English lacked uniformity in spelling, but Samuel Johnson's dictionary, published in 1755 in England, was influential in establishing a standard form of spelling. Noah Webster did the same in America, publishing his dictionary in 1828; see American and British English spelling differences.
Public education increased literacy, and more people had access to books (and therefore to a standard language) with the spread of public libraries in the 19th century. Many words entered English from other languages as a result of contact with other cultures through trade and settlement and from the migration of large numbers of people to the United States from other countries. World War I and World War II threw together people from different backgrounds, and the greater social mobility afterwards helped to lessen the differences between social accents, at least in the UK. The development of radio broadcasting in the early 20th century familiarised the population with accents and vocabulary from outside their own localities, often for the first time, and this phenomenon continued with film and television.
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| Outline of changes | |
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The following is an outline of the major changes in Modern English compared to its previous form (Middle English). Note, however, that these are generalizations, and some of these may not be true for specific dialects:
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Main articles: Phonological history of the English language#Up to the American–British split and Phonological history of the English language#After American–British split, up to the 20th century
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| Syntax | |
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disuse of the T-V distinction (thou, ye).
use of auxiliary verbs becomes mandatory in interrogative sentences.
rise and fall of prescriptive grammarians.
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Changes in alphabet and spelling were heavily influenced by the advent of printing and continental printing practices.
The letter thorn (þ), which was already being replaced by th in Middle English, finally fell into disuse. The last vestige of the letter was writing the as þe, which was still seen occasionally in the King James Bible of 1611.
The letters i and j, previously written as a single letter, began to be distinguished; likewise for u and v. This was a common development of the Latin alphabet during this period.
Consequently, Modern English came to use a purely Latin alphabet of 26 letters.
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| See also | |
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History of the English language
International English
List of dialects of the English language
Old English
Middle English
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Ethnologue's "ENGLISH: a language of United Kingdom"
Shakespeare's Influence on Early Modern English
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Proto-English · Old English · Anglo-Norman language · Middle English · Early Modern English · Modern English
Phonological history
Vowels
Great Vowel Shift · short A · low back vowels · high back vowels · high front vowels · diphthongs · changes before historic l · changes before historic r · trisyllabic laxing
Consonants
rhoticity · flapping · l-vocalization · consonant clusters · wh · fricatives and affricates · th · th-alveolarization · th-fronting · ð (eth) · þ (thorn) · th-debuccalization · th-stopping
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