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Modern English is fusion of Old English ( which has a lot of Norse in it ) and Norman French. With the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, French became the official language there. A few centuries later, Middle English literature appears - with a great deal of French vocabulary and grammar. Modern English is dated roughly from Shakespeare' s time.

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