Old English, Highly inflected Germanic language, Middle English, Period of French influence, 1066, Norman Conquest, 1475, Introduction of printing, William Caxton, First English printer, Synthetic language, Uses many grammatical endings, Age of Normalization, Fixing language norms, London dialect, Basis of Standard English, Modern English, Stable national language, 5th century, Anglo-Saxon settlement

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