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I think I read somewhere that English language legal settings have a history of a peculiar dialect of French mixed in, owing to the Norman history in Britain.
by asveikau 7y ago
I think I read somewhere that English language legal settings have a history of a peculiar dialect of French mixed in, owing to the Norman history in Britain.
- sandworm101 7y agoNorman, and Napoleon. The landed aristocracy has moved back and forth across the channel for a thousand years. They also fought countless wars against, and a couple alongside, each other. That creates a common culture that bleeds into all language. It happened in law, but also greatly in medicine and other sciences.