government, at the court and in the church. French was spoken by the upper classes
of English society. Common people stuck to the English language, but it couldn‘t
stop the flooding of the English vocabulary with Norman French words that began in
the 13
th
century.
French loans in the English vocabulary may be subdivided into two main
groups:
early loans: 12
th
-15
th
centuries;
later loans: beginning from the 16
th
century.
Early French loans were thoroughly assimilated in English and made to conform
to the rules of English pronunciation. They were, as a rule, simple short words, e.g.
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: 
