The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases--such as la mode, ennui, na vet and caprice--lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise...
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