₦airaland Forum

quite informative

gerra ra hia - leave here

Na wah

Nyc1 OP

What of "gaffe"? I thought it was French too. Thanks Op for sharing.

what is wrongeee with my Airtel line .no networkeee

Grand prix
Menu
Entrée
Restaurant


But french is all English, just badly pronounced .... - Alexandra Dumas. (He was trying to learn English then so he probably said that in French though)

cete ris paribus

Mansion - big house

bolaji3071:
Merci boku

Hheheeheheh! Merci 'boku' kor 'K(B)oku baboni ni!

Great write up, very educating! Do you also know that most of the origin of these words are not French but Latin? Yes most languages are derived from the ancient language of Latin. For example Souvenir comes from the Latin word subvenire which means occur to the mind.

ladyF:
Avant garde

Poisson

Guess who is here again

Fish

Vanguard

Thnks

Jacko1:
Ehn ehn ehn 2nd to comment we gettin there eh au revoir

your journey stil far.....kip tryin

Educative

Cleme dela creme

Fiance: fiance of course
Se finis: that's it

Niyinficient:
Hheheeheheh! Merci 'boku' kor 'K(B)oku baboni ni!

Lolz... At least that is the way i no they pronounce it.. So you can kindly help me to correct any error..

abbey621:
Great write up, very educating! Do you also know that most of the origin of these words are not French but Latin? Yes most languages are derived from the ancient language of Latin. For example Souvenir comes from the Latin word subvenire which means occur to the mind.

English and French are of the same language family and their parent is latin

PassionE

scholes0:
Not surprising.
English is actually at least 30% French.
Most French words entered English through the Norman (old French) invasion of England. If the French mainlanders hadn't invaded England, You and I in Nigeria would have probably sounded more like those cranky Germans and guttural Dutch people today.

I would have disbelieved that English has its roots in German language rather than freNch considering the fact that today it bears more similarities with French than it does with German.
The accent and diction are totally off yet it's a west Germanic language

Is "education" not a french word?

ladyF:
Avant garde

Poisson

Guess who is here again

hahaahaha. It's ladyF again

English is like 50% French. Pointless topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin

enieme:
I would have disbelieved that English has its roots in German language rather than freNch considering the fact that today it bears more similarities with French than it does with German.
The accent and diction are totally off yet it's a west Germanic language

It has a lot of vocabulary of French and/or Latin origin, but its basic structure, syntax and pronunciation are Germanic. (Note that being germanic is not the same as having roots in German language, it is just a name used to classify all the languages in that cluster)
For example the way the English would pronounce those words of Latin origin (Including French words), is not the same way An Italian would pronounce them.
Because even French has been hugely influenced by Germanic languages, the Franks who are the forebears of Modern people in North-Eastern France are actually a Germanic race- Their original germanic accents influenced the way they spoke their original bastardised latin, and that is why Even though French and Italian /Spanish are in the same language family, today French sounds completely different.

Vien

Sans francisco.... You mean "without francisco"?

chiffon

You've forgotten tête a tête

scholes0:
Not surprising.
English is actually at least 30% French.
Most French words entered English through the Norman (old French) invasion of England. If the French mainlanders hadn't invaded England, You and I in Nigeria would have probably sounded more like those cranky Germans and guttural Dutch people today.

If those Germans had been Nazis, we wouldn't sound like anything because we wouldn't exist

Trousseau

Avant-garde

Facade (it has a cedilla at the bottom of the "c"

bureau de change