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JN>> It's too bad England and the U.S. didn't do the same with
JN>> french  words hundreds of years ago. 

RJT> There aren't that many, are there? 

If you lump all of the 'romance languages' (Latin based)
together English is 60% derived from those. Some of what appear
to be French words are equally Spainish-based, or Italian-based
words. The pronounciation varies more than the spellings from
one romance language to another. 

The British 'empire' wasn't just sucking up the natural
resources of it's 'colonies' it was constructing it's language
as well from bits and pieces taken from others. That and being
conguered many times in it's past plus inter-marriage of the
'royal families'. At one time the Russian nobility were cousins
to the British nobility who refused them asylum during the
Russian revolution (guaranteeing they would all be killed btw). 

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