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Norman French wasn't really French As We Know It, though. Someone described it as "French as spoken by Danes", which is probably not too far off.
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
Norman French wasn't really French As We Know It, though.
Someone described it as "French as spoken by Danes", which is probably not too far off.
- kazinator 3y agoSo ... Wooflez Woo, Woof-woof?
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoBy the time the Normans invaded England, they had gone thoroughly native in France and shed their Nordic origins, and as an Old French dialect theirs wasn't particularly unusual. Any textbook of Old French will go over the differences between the Old French of Normandy and that of Paris, and these differences are rather minor.
- eynsham 3y agoIndeed; Anglo-Norman French principally diverged after 1066.