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Norman French ... like French, only different. Most "French" people as we now know them didn't speak "French" as we now know it but spoke their own local language.
Well, they were Norman ... descended from Norsemen who "settled" in the fertile limestone area now known as Normandy. To communicate with the Lord of the Manor you'd speak French but, out in the fields, English was still the lingua franca ( sorry), so a sheep, which is Schaff in German, a word brought here by the Angles (or Saxons, not sure which) out in the field became Mouton by the time it got to the Lord of the Manor's table. As Dally mentioned, many of their words entered our language. For many centuries if you wanted to show you were "educated" or sophisticated, you'd drop a few French words into your conversations, hence Shakespeare used French-speaking as a theatrical device to show how a character had ideas above his social station.
EDIT - Forgot to mention, as late as the 1790's, only about 12% of French people spoke what we now call French.
Probably the closest you will now find to "old" French would be the patois spoken by Arcadians and Guernsey folk
There was a three-part comic documentary done by Eddie Izzard some years ago, Mongrel Nation, looking at the ethnic origins of the British.
Anyway, one of the segments had him going to Leicester University (IIRC) to learn to speak a little Old English. He then visited rural Holland and went in search of a farmer to ask to buy a cow from – using Old English. And that was an interesting way to show the links between English and Dutch.
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Why is it that when driving along the motorway, if you happen to glance across at a driver in another vehicle they more often than not can tell your looking at them and will glance back?
This also happens if someone looks at me, I can sense someone looking at me and will look back.
There was a three-part comic documentary done by Eddie Izzard some years ago, Mongrel Nation, looking at the ethnic origins of the British.
Anyway, one of the segments had him going to Leicester University (IIRC) to learn to speak a little Old English. He then visited rural Holland and went in search of a farmer to ask to buy a cow from – using Old English. And that was an interesting way to show the links between English and Dutch.
... and of corse "Dutch" is basically the word the Germans use for their own language.
Norman French ... like French, only different. Most "French" people as we now know them didn't speak "French" as we now know it but spoke their own local language.
Well, they were Norman ... descended from Norsemen who "settled" in the fertile limestone area now known as Normandy. To communicate with the Lord of the Manor you'd speak French but, out in the fields, English was still the lingua franca ( sorry), so a sheep, which is Schaff in German, a word brought here by the Angles (or Saxons, not sure which) out in the field became Mouton by the time it got to the Lord of the Manor's table. As Dally mentioned, many of their words entered our language. For many centuries if you wanted to show you were "educated" or sophisticated, you'd drop a few French words into your conversations, hence Shakespeare used French-speaking as a theatrical device to show how a character had ideas above his social station.
EDIT - Forgot to mention, as late as the 1790's, only about 12% of French people spoke what we now call French.
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Sorry only just noticed you said 6 months, should be fine to add it in gradually over a few fill ups instead of wasting it. You're looking at about 12 months before you don't really want to put it in your car as it will effect performance.
You can see the links really easily in just a few basic words.
So, for instance:
Milk - melk - milch.
Or
Thank you - dank u – danke.
Yes, basically the everyday English words that the peasants used / still use are often Germanic and the long, fancy English fancy words often French (with in many cases exactly the same spelling).
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. " Anuerin Bevan
Why is it that when driving along the motorway, if you happen to glance across at a driver in another vehicle they more often than not can tell your looking at them and will glance back?
This also happens if someone looks at me, I can sense someone looking at me and will look back.
Is this telepathy?
And why do they instantly stop picking their nose when they glance? I know they were doing it, they know you know they were doing it, so why not carry on picking while glancing?
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