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  2. Modern English - Wikipedia

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    Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) [2] or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.

  3. History of English - Wikipedia

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    English-speaking world; As a second language; ... English literature began to reappear after 1200, ... Early Modern English, ...

  4. Early Modern English - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.

  5. English language - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the start of ... Modern English has spread around the world since the 17th century as a consequence of ...

  6. English people - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the Great Vowel Shift. Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire , English spread around the world from the 17th to mid-20th centuries.

  7. Middle English - Wikipedia

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    Early Modern English began in the 1540s after the printing and wide ... Translation in Modern English: (by J. Dow) ... we may leave our knowledge to the world after ...

  8. Early modern period - Wikipedia

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    In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from around the start of the 16th century to the start of the 19th century (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity; but the dates of these boundaries are far from universally agreed.

  9. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    The Latin adjective was adopted in Middle French, as moderne, by the 15th century, and hence, in the early Tudor period, into Early Modern English. The early modern word meant "now existing", or "about the present times", not necessarily with a positive connotation. English author and playwright William Shakespeare used the term modern in the ...