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1、ThedevelopmentofEnglishwordsAbstractWordisthemostimportantpartoflanguage,andalsoistheproductandreflectionofthedevelopmentoflanguage.TheEnglishwordschangewiththedevelopmentofthesocietywhichresultsintheappearanceofalargenumberofnewEnglishwords.ThispaperliststhereasonsoftheEnglishwords’developmentandth
2、ewaysofthedevelopment.Keywords:Englishwords,development,change1.IntroductionThehistoryoftheEnglishlanguagereallystartedwiththearrivalofthreeGermanictribeswhoinvadedBritainduringthe5thcenturyAD.Thesetribes,theAngles,theSaxonsandtheJutes,crossedtheNorthSeafromwhattodayisDenmarkandnorthernGermany.Attha
3、ttimetheinhabitantsofBritainspokeaCelticlanguage.ButmostoftheCelticspeakerswerepushedwestandnorthbytheinvaders-mainlyintowhatisnowWales,ScotlandandIreland.TheAnglescamefromEnglandandtheirlanguagewascalledEnglish-fromwhichthewordsEnglandandEnglisharederived.112.Thereasonsofthedevelopment2.1scienceand
4、technologyThedevelopmentofthescienceandtechnologyprovidethemostabundantsourceofEnglishwords.Asthescienceandtechnologydevelop,newwordsareusedtoexpressnewconcepts,newtechniquesaswellasnewinventions.Astheyhavedevelopedrapidlyduringthelastfewyears,newwordsandexpressionshavebeencoinedoneafteranother.Spac
5、etravelhasmanylinguisticdiscoveriestomake.Interestingly,therehasbeenatendencytocoinnicesimplewordsandphraseslike:spacesuit,heat-shield,splash-down,linkup,moonscape,lunar,module,rendezvous,lunarrover,mooncraft,spacestation,satellite,cosmonaut,moonquake,readout,blackhole,lunarmodule,biologicalclock.Th
6、edevelopmentofcomputerandinternettechnologyhasproducedanewvocabularyoftheirown.Forexample,program-whichhasbeenadoptedtodenoteasequenceofinstructionsfedintoacomputeranddesignedtosolveaproblemorattainaspecificresult.Input-whichmeansdataintroducedintoacomputerwornexternaldeviceforstorageorprintingoutor
7、informationtransferredfromthecomputertoanexternaldeviceforstorageorprintingoutorpunchingout.E-mail–asystemofsendingwrittenmessageelectronicallyfromonecomputertoanother.Hacker-anexpertatprogrammingands