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Norman French

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Norman French

Form of French used by the Normans in Normandy from the 10th century, and by the Norman ruling class in England after the Conquest in 1066. It remained the language of the English court until the 15th century, and the official language of the law courts until the 17th century.
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For a long time after the Normans came to England, they spoke Norman French.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Back of those men's time the English are just simply foreigners, nothing more, nothing less; they talk Danish, German, Norman French, and sometimes a mixture of all three; back of THEM, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and billions of pure savages that talk a gibberish that Satan himself couldn't understand.
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