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They're both Germanic-based and both use the Roman alphabet. We've borrowed words from each other. 26 percent of all English words of are French origin, actually, like 'achieve' and 'necessary' and all those words you could never spell in school. I'm serious. Look for a word you had trouble spelling, it's gonna be here (link)

And France took 'weekend', 'rockstar', 'jeans', all that stuff (but oddly not 'computer/ordinateur').

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Because when the French Normans conquered the Anglo-Saxons of England, they established the language of the aristocracy to be French. Eventually, the French of the nobles and the Germanic dialect of the peasants cross-pollinated and merged to form English.

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