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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Make Like You Speak English, not French-Chinese

Standard English as well as Americanish uses many French words because the French ran England for 200 years and français leaked into the lexicon. The resident French invaders were themselves leaky:  England and English infiltrated them to the extent that, in only a few generations, they were no longer welcome in France as French; they'd become hicks and bumpkins.  Well, we all are to Parisiens.