Richard the Lion-Hearted spoke French as his first language.
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How about ship for scip, should for scolde, and shit(e) for scite. And a wide range of prefixes and suffixes. -ment and -able for example.
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One other thing: whether it was intentional or not, the only word in Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches..." quote that is of French, not English origin, is "surrender".
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Yes, I recall watching Boris Johnson use that as an example of Churchill's use of Anglo-Saxon words for rhetorical emphasis.
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