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Originally Posted by nath
That's why for exemple you have some words which are stayed in English (often words about the food: pork (porc in French), veal (veau in French)..
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More than a few words actually…
Something like 40% of modern English vocabulary comes directly from Norman-French (or Latin via Norman-French) because Norman-French was the official language of the nobility and administration in England for about 4 centuries after the Norman conquest in 1066, which obviously had a profound influence on the vulgar English spoken by common people.