WHEN Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English language did not exist. Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of the sixteenth century, when William Shakespeare was in his prime, English was the native speech of just five or seven Englishmen.
Gradually English emerged as a global phenomenon and today it is the most widely used language on the planet or in the history of the planet Of all the languages English has the vocabulary, perhaps even as much as two million words. More than half the word’s books are in English.
So, let us face it, English is a crazy language. It is almost impossible to analyze its genesis. Most of us take English as granted but when we take a closer look we see that quicksand works, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea. There is no egg in eggplant neither there is any money on money plant. There is neither pine nor apple in pineapple and English muffines were not invented in England nor French-fries in France. If the plural of tooth is teeth shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? In what other languages do you have noses that run?
English was invented by people and thus reflects the creativity of the humans race (which isn’t really a race at all) that is why when the stars are out they appear but when the lights are out
They disappear. And when I wind up my watch I start it but when I wind up my essay I end it.
