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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by azernik on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:42PM (#18157420)
That vowel shift is not from French, but rather part of the English Great Vowel Shift [1]. The original loanword from Medieval Norman French to Middle English was /tʃeːf/ (spelled "chef"), compared to the re-borrowed /ʃɛf/.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

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