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The word English comes from the country of England. But people didn't always speak English there. In fact, 2000 years ago, England was not the name of the country, and the English people didn't even live there. At that time, another group of people, the Celts, lived in the place that is now England. They did not speak English. The name of their language was Celtic. Then groups of people came to England from other countries in Northern Europe. The Celts had to leave England when these people came. Today, only a few people in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and France still speak the Celtic language. And there are only one or two English words that come from Celtic. But the names of some towns and places in England are Celtic: such as Kent, York, Thames, and London.
The English language started about 1500 years ago in England. Three groups of people came to the country then: the Angles, the Saxons' and the Jutes. These three groups brought their language with them to England. After some time, the three languages became one new language: English. The name English comes from the Angles, they lived in most of England. England means Angel Land or the country of the Angles.
The language that we speak today: Modern English is not the same as the English that people used 1500 years ago. That language (Old English) sounded different and it had some different rules of grammar. And there were only a few thousand words in Old English. But Modern English does come from old English, and it is still like it in many important ways. Modern English has a very big vocabulary. In fact, the famous Oxford Dictionary lists over 650,000 different words. Not all the words in this dictionary are currently used. A lot of new words come into the language every year. Every time there is a new thing or someone has a new idea, people need a new word to talk about it. Which words are new and which ones are old? The answer is easy: the words for new things are new and for old things are old.