Brigit Viney Oxford Univ Pr (Sd) 2008年7月24日

…But sometimes both the French and the Old English words survived, with small differences in meanings: for example ask(OE) and demand(F), wedding(OE) and marriage(F), king(OE) and sovereign(F). Sometimes French words were used for life in the upper classes and Old English ones for life in the lower classes. Fore example, the words for the animals in the fields were Old English (cows, sheep, and pigs) but the words for the meat on the table were French (beef, mutton, and pork).

英語の歴史。

量の割りにいろいろ発見があって面白かった。