it is not difficult to recognize the areas where French influence still dominates the language. The most salient example is that of vocabulary. Any student of Modern French is struck by the sheer vastness of similar lexical terms between it and Present-Day English, despite the fact that French and English derive historically from different sources. It would be impossible to speculate what the English language might look like today if the Normans had never invaded Britain. However, suffice it to say, the present English language has been extensively enriched by the quantity of this foreign influence. ...
