Middle English

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People spoke Middle English from the Norman invasion in 1066 to the middle/late 1400s. In the 1470s the Chancery Standard, a type of English London people spoke, started to become more common. This was partly because William Caxton brought the Printing press to England in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called Early Modern English. There were many different dialects of Middle English.

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

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