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No grammars or dictionaries
No one studied English in school
The language was only an oral phenomemon
Correctness in speech
Pubblication of many grammars, dictionaries, magazines,...
Turbolent years:
1665, the bubonic plague
1666, the Great Fire of London
many wars
Language of the court VS Language of the people
Great control over publications (Licensing Act)
Percepts of the Academie Française
They denounced all "amplifications, digressions and swelling of style in order to return to the primitive purity"
Popular and cheap pubblications
1695, the Licensing Act expired
Swift, "Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue"
1747, Samuel Johnson
Industrial Revolution = Standardization of English
New words,
new technical terms
Love for order
Believed in minorities
Attracted by minority languages, dialects and exotic languages
Preference for the language of real people