30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren’t necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).
English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).
Today an English speaker can nominally/marginally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week or two. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can’t say I know it even today.
It doesn’t have to do with how it’s said more than influence generally. Some words in English simply wouldn’t exist that we use on a daily basis without French influence.
30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren’t necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).
English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).
Today an English speaker can nominally/marginally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week or two. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can’t say I know it even today.
It doesn’t have to do with how it’s said more than influence generally. Some words in English simply wouldn’t exist that we use on a daily basis without French influence.