Some of them were never "good French", in the sense of being grammatical, idiomatic French usage. In spoken English, at least some attempt is generally made to pronounce them as they would sound in French an entirely English pronunciation is regarded as a solecism. They are most common in written English, where they retain French diacritics and are usually printed in italics. This article, on the other hand, covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. Thoroughly English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, machine, money, police, publicity, role, routine and table, are pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French, and are commonly used by English speakers without any consciousness of their French origin. Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English. ( September 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.
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