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England didn't take words from French, the French inserted them by force. The French conquered them and they had to learn some French to understand their lords
by fsckboy 4y ago
England didn't take words from French, the French inserted them by force. The French conquered them and they had to learn some French to understand their lords and masters who spoke a different language.
False, it was not the French but the Normans, Vikings who had learned to speak French, who conquered England.
An England made up of Brittanic Celts who had been conquered, ruled over, and had mixed with and learned to speak the Germanic languages of the Angles, the Saxons and then the invading Danes.
French, the language of France, is derived from the Latin language of the Romans who had conquered that Gaulic Celtic place before they were in turn conquered by the Germanic Franks who switched from their lingua franca to Latin. Then the Normans settled in Normandy, just north of Brittany, still occupied by the Celts.
So there is nothing French about the Germanic Franks, nor anything Gaulic or Frankish about the language French, a language the Romans brought to Gaul and the Germanic Normans brought to Great Britain.