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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly it is; I'm not suggesting otherwise. The previous poster, though, was suggesting that English developed FROM French, and that's simply not true. English is a Germanic language; French a Romance language.
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I've always loved Graves and Hodges for building the idiosyncrasies of the English language's history into their guide to writing it logically. Your comment about the French (i.e., Latinate) vocabulary suggests you might have read that book. If so, perhaps I'm not alone in admiring it.