How did ‘old English’ develop into present english?
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You already know the majority of Old English words. Let me say that again. If you were to read Old English, you would already know most of the words in there.
French influence came into England when Guillaume le Batard, William the Bastard, William the Conqueror, won at Hastings in 1066.
Slowly but surely the French language became one with the Old English you already know.
To use a topical example let us take the following sentence: “Make America Great Again”. Every word here (apart from “America” is an Anglo Saxon word).
We may rephrase this as “Re-Render America Fantastic” to align with our French ancestors.
Already you can see how the two work in tandem, which is to see how Old English became our language now.
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