Indo-European words.

Celts settled in Britain.

Romans invaded Britain and ruled the Celts from A.D. 43-410.

Romans had to conquer the Celts with many battles.

Icenian Queen, Boadicea, made the Romans pay a heavy price.

Romans built Hadrian's wall to protect themselves from the Picts.

Picts broke through Hadrian's wall in A.D. 300.

Roman troops went back to Italy to defend Rome from invading "barbarians".

In A.D. 410, the last Roman legions withdrew from Britain, leaving the Celts to defend themselves against the Picts and Irish.

Old English Period, A.D. 450-1150.

Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, Teutonic tribes settled in Britain.

St. Augustine arrived in England with 40 priests in A.D. 597.

Caedmon, wrote "Caedmon's Hymn" in A.D. 657-680.

Beowulf, Old English literature.

A.D. 731, the Venerable Bede, a monk at Jarrow, England.

A.D. 789, the Vikings began raiding and plundering Britain.

A.D. 871-899, Alfred the Great served as the first king of England.

Danelaw and English territory.

A.D. 1016-1035, reign of King Canute (Cnute).

Accession of Edward the Confessor restored King Alfred's line.

1066, "William the Conqueror" and his Normans and mercenaries took control of Britain.

1150-1500, Middle English Period.

1258, the "Provisions of Oxford", first official document to use English since the Norman Conquest.

1350-1400, period of great literary production in Britain.

Modern-English Period, A.D. 1500 to present.

English writers used Greek and Latin to present their ideas.

Human activities developed new objects and concepts, requiring new terms, many were still from Latin and Greek origins.

Scientific presentations used Latin and Greek as their nomenclature.

New inventions required more technical terms.

Improved travel methods and communication have developed standards of speech.

Uniformity of American English resulted from improved modes of travel and communication.

Space-age generation continues to utilize terms from Latin and Greek.

1. To shed light upon or to brighten up: Jane said she will try to illustrate what she means by the objectives of the committee when she talks with the whole group.
2. To clarify something by giving examples or making comparisons so as to clearly show or to explain: Dr. Johnson used several examples to illustrate his point in the physics lecture.
3. To provide explanatory or decorative pictures to accompany a printed, a spoken, or an electronic text: After graduating from Art College, Joyce got a job illustrating children's books.
4. Etymology: from Latin in-, "throughly" + lustrare, "to illuminate"; from Latin lumen, "light".

Examples of using big words by comic characters.

At first, the Romans started their years with spring and had only 10 months for each year.