Have you noticed we regularly use a lot of French words? For example, ‘hors d'oeuvres’. And that's just for starters.

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Have you noticed we regularly use a lot of French words? For example, ‘hors d'oeuvres’. And that's just for starters.

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4 小時內	Patricia Phillips mbp.phillips.58910	And you would be amazed at how many English words the French use!
7 小時內	Andy Hawkins andysstudio.ca	60% of English is just differently pronounced French
8 小時內	Peter Robert Fuller peterrobertfuller	George W Bush once famously said, “The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepeneur.” Idiot opens mouth.
9 小時內	Trevor Bartlett greatnsecret	I’m hearing use of ‘guillotine’ has been trending upwards
9 小時內	Tobi AuCoin tamaucoin	😂
13 小時內	David Alan Ware davidalanware	Except it is not French for starters....
14 小時內	Jonathan Ledbury jonathan.ledbury	It's particularly true in the culinary world, but as many others have pointed out, after 1066 Normand words became just as prevalent as Anglo-Saxon words. From there on in English mugged many other words to steal from foreign languages
18 小時內	Maria Pittaway mariapittaway	😂😂
19 小時內	Maria m_celada	😂
19 小時內	Lena Laine lenaninenina	My people 🛸