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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by stan_rogers on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:27AM (#13409222)
No. For instance, shirt is from Old English, while its cognate skirt is from Old Norse. We gained quite a bit of vocabulary from the Danelaw, and lost a lot of the grammatical complexity (gender and inflection) at the same time. Apart from vocabulary, French barely touched the English language; it was the Vikings that messed things up terribly by settling in with the common folk up north.
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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by jacobush on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:31AM (#13409241)
And many "french" were from Normandy i.e. barely reformed Norse. Just look at the name "nor man dy".
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