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It's not as butchered as you think. Some of it is simply older (Norman-)French pronunciation fossilized in English. It's similar to how you can find Middle Chin
by Bayart 3y ago
It's not as butchered as you think. Some of it is simply older (Norman-)French pronunciation fossilized in English. It's similar to how you can find Middle Chinese across Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese or Proto-Germanic in Finnish.
- secondcoming 3y agoNorman French is still used in the House of Commons sometimes: https://youtu.be/xBcR-s8QtoQ?si=hm8sHgRZUQ_A5dNy&t=6 https://youtu.be/xBcR-s8QtoQ?si=hm8sHgRZUQ_A5dNy&t=6