Romance / Latin influence on England?
What exactly is the nature of Romance / Latin influence on England? I know we are a people mainly composed from Germanic and Celtic tribes, but our culture is somewhere between Germanic, Celtic and Romance / Latin, it seems to borrow a lot from all of them.
The English language now has more Romance words than it does Germanic by far, to be honest I don't know how to feel about that - either complacent with it or sad about it :D
English has a great deal of French (including Anglo-Nroman) and Latin words, but I've read that many of these are either archaic or fairly defunct and that the core few thousand words are usually Germanic.
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But besides language is English culture just Germanic+Celtic or is there a Latin / Romance influence on other areas of English society as well.
The Normans aren't seen very favourably by a lot of people here, but what were the positive things they did?