- The history of the English language shows the place of English in the linguistic world;
- it reveals its ties and contacts with other related and unrelated tongues.
- Every living language as a means of human communication is a social and historical phenomenon and it changes through time: especially subjected to change in the older periods of its history until it became fixed by the rapid spread of literature, press, radio and constant human intercourse.
- no records of linguistic changes have ever been kept, as most changes pass unnoticed by contemporaries.
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