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English can be said to have become a language (instead of a group of related languages) when three things occurred:
- The King James Bible was published in 1611, making English the official language of England and its church.
- Shakespeare's plays were published in 1623, creating a unifying popular force for a single language
- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, which greatly helped in guiding standardized spelling and pronunciation.
The emergence of an English language that would be comprehensible to a listener today is arguable but probably came about 1400 - 1500, but English still had five distinct regional variations with their own pronunciations, possessives, plurals, etc.
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