Fairs
An event where people gather for entertainment or trade purpose. These events have been organized since ancient times.
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English language
More than 500 million people in the world speak English. Most of the peoples of Britain, North America, Australia and New Zealand speak English as a first language. It is also spoken in Africa, India and other parts of Asia. Many people who speak other languages learn English as a second language. After Chinese, English is spoken by more people than any other language.
The language we call English grew out of German dialects spoken by the Angle and Saxon tribes who conquered England 1,500 years ago. This first Anglo-Saxon English is known as Old English. It had many different dialects and sounded like German. After the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, a new kind of English developed. The Normans spoke French and also used Latin in churches and law courts. The language that emerged from this mixture of Old English, French and Latin is known as Middle English. Geoffrey Chaucer's famous collection of stories, the Canterbury Tales, was written in Middle English in the 1300's. Middle English is rather like English spoken today, but it has some different spelling.
The Modern English that we speak has been developing since the late 1400's. Although English has changed much since then, people can still understand and enjoy the plays of William Shakespeare, which were written 400 years ago.
