After all of England's historico-cultural trials the language comes through as a modern, accepted European language. This is an advantage we still have in the sciences today. Important stuff was relegated to the exclusionary language of higher discourse. I love Rome, but London better . . . Wycliffe's bible, the move from Roman church is a move from Latin language.
Commercial press has influence.
Authors will write in a language that sells . . . Nationalist pride in language. English no longer will accept identity of rude, barbarous community with a barbarous language. Likewise, the English had no true comprehension of the French. Also the removal by analogy of the once sounded gh in light, night, etc., While the letters stay in the traditional spelling.