A lot of english words are French, besides any we adopt from things coming from France or cultural influences, clichs and all, we were ruled by the Romans remember, French and English derive a lot from Latin, French more so as a Romance language but Latin was used in all parts of the Empire so we share a lot of words, even if they are a bit different. I just don't get how going across an ocean can replace loads of words just like that, you get dialect differences quickly a lot of the time but immigrants kept coming to America and even dialects don't make up words so fast.
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I have come to appreciate MSPaint more than I ever have before, and that's a lot. Oh why can I not find a mac program that matches it!