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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
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.
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?
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