Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on
the way we speak. Columbus' discovery of America introduced to
Europe new foodstuffs such as chilli and chocolate and the words
that described them. The Normans gave us the feudal system and
curfews, while the flourishing of Dutch art in the seventeenth
century introduced easels, etchings and landscapes. Before the
1970s green was a colour with connotations of naivete rather than
ecology and until 1990 webs were mostly attached to spiders.
Starting from 1066 and working through to the modern day boom in
techno-speak, Dictionary of English Down the Ages links hundreds of
words with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which
gave them life.
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