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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
I would have thought French, but I'm only a poor Spanish woman  |
Well, it was borrowed from French but it's considered English now. Such is the nature of English.
A couple of the quotations I love about the English language:
"And you know what English is? English is the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to make dates with Saxon barmaids, and no more legitimate than any of the other results."
—H. Beam Piper, "
The Other Human Race"
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
—James D. Nicoll
“Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets looking for loose grammar and vocabulary."
— Eddie Peters
There is some dubiousness about the third quotes origin.