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What caused the English spoken today to be different from the English spoken in earlier centuries

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English has gone through many phases. English was different in the earlier centuries because of the necessity. With all this new technology there has got to be new words being invented. English language went through natural selection. Some words, phrases and song stuck with us and others withered away.
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