The History of the English Language by Lucy Rucker

Analysis and reflection done by Hugo Churches

Lucy Rucker article of the history of the old English Language is congruent according to the evolution of Old English, it makes me think how English was a language with strange words with no meaning but nowadays some of these words have a distinctive meaning, let alone the creation of new words in the now Modern English we use at this period of time in our lifes. So as far as I am concerned, according to Lucy Rucker, the appearance of English started with Germanic tribes that settled in Britain up to the eleventh century, after this time, Old English was now a reflection of the Anglo-Norman-French so leads me to think that these languages were later combined to form one English interpretation but its evolution didn’t stopped at this point, Middle English which is “derived” from the Old English, according to Lucy Rucker’s point of view, is a type of English that evolved In that time up to do the present which is now a more Modern and Advanced English which is more easy to understand. So, Lucy Rucker’s point of this is actually telling us the origins of this language by specifying a little story of its first appearance. Some of the most important concepts that this article contain is mainly the title, The History of English Language, which tell us the origins of English from long time ago, also telling that English also came from Britain, Lucy Rucker’s article also tries to inform us that Modern English is a hard language to learn, a language that always changes, always adds new words or forms to correctly learn it and be able to understand it. Lucy’s article about English origins article contains good information but still, some information is missing like the way they were able to maintain it while the Germanic tribes were settling down in Britain, a very difficult information to research I might add but at least some examples would do the job, this examples could maybe help me to compare both old English and Modern English. In conclusion to this article, I might say that I agree with the information distributor (Lucy Rucker), I must say that I didn’t knew that English started to spread thanks to the Germanic Tribes also I think that the author stated her point on how English is a language that is always changing and spreading across the globe.