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Copyright Katherine Acheson, 2006.

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ON THE SIDE

For about three hundred years (from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the ascent of King Henry IV in 1399) French was the official language of the English court, Parliament, and legal system. French words and words of French origin still dominate our bureaucracy.