French association with "high class" goes a long ways back, including to when Brittania was under Norman rule in the early 1000s. Much of the loan words from O

French association with "high class" goes a long ways back, including to when Brittania was under Norman rule in the early 1000s. Much of the loan words from Old French are considered classier compared to equivalent words from Old english https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_dual_French_and_Anglo-Saxon_variations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_dua...