French in England

English must dissapear in USA.

The Normans didn't abandon French, they continued to use it for over 300 years after the conquest.


Not impressive at all. Many sephardim Jews still speak Spanish after 500 years of their explusion from Spain. As another forumer said they eventually abandoned French and adopted English , the language of peasantry at those times.

"Well, yeah, but eventually they did forlet it. Their possessions in England eventually coming to be thought of as their at-home owndoms, while their continental possessions as those they had to constatnly squabble about with the King of France. "

Owndom? Sounds like internet speak. I believe most Norman knights switched over very early to English which was well on the way to becoming Middle English, but Anglo-Norman remained mainly as an administrative language for a few centuries.

I'm guessing owndom = kingdom right? Why not use that?

<<I'm guessing owndom = kingdom right? Why not use that? >>

'owndom' = possession, that which is owned

I had used 'possession' already twice in that same sentence and it needed some variety :)

Gold, gold, gold , gold pa mi.

"Owndom" sounds so Anglosaxon. I like it rather than "posession".

Their "reaches" - another good Germanic word...

Also England was not diluted with Spanish as the hispanic dung beetle wishfully thinks, it cannot be imposed on the native population because the Spanish Armada was destroyed, they finally mixed with the gypsies and abandoned the plan as the Anglosaxons were nordic people unlilike them and had more in common with them than with the Iberian Spaniards.

FitzWalter,FitzGerald,FitzRobert,FitzGilbert,FitzHoward-surnames of Anglo-Norman origin.