What is Modern English?
{{Infobox language | name = Modern English | altname = New English | nativename = English | era = Late 17th century AD – present<ref>Terttu Nevalainen: ''An Introduction to Early Modern English'', Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 1</ref> | region = [[English-speaking world]] | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] | fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] | fam4 = [[North Sea Germanic]] | fam5 = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]] | fam6 = [[Anglic languages|Anglic]] | fam7 = [[English language|English]] | ancestor = [[Proto-Indo-European]] | ancestor2 = [[Proto-Germanic]] | ancestor3 = [[Old English]] | ancestor4 = [[Middle English]] | ancestor5 = [[Early Modern English]] | script = [[Latin script]] ([[English alphabet]])<br />[[English Braille]], [[Unified English Braille]] | iso1 = en | iso2 = eng | iso3 = eng | lingua = 52-ABA | glotto = stan1293 | glottorefname = English }} '''Modern English''' ('''ME''') or '''New English''' ('''NE''')<ref>{{Cite book|title=Language history: an introduction|last=Sihler|first=Andrew L.|date=2000|publisher=Benjamins|others=University of Wisconsin-Madison|isbn=978-90-272-3698-2|series=Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory|volume=191|location=Amsterdam|pages=16}}</ref> is the type of [[English language]] spoken since the end of the [[17th century]] after the [[Great Vowel Shift]] had completed. It evolved from [[Early Modern English]], spoken mostly by the [[British people]] very long ago. With some differences in [[vocabulary]], early important texts include [[William Shakespeare#List of Shakespeare's plays|Shakespeare’s works]] and the [[Authorized King James Version|King James Bible]] were in Modern English. Because of [[colon