At 22:19 19/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
>At 3:16 am -0400 19/10/98, Nik Taylor wrote:
>>Raymond A. Brown wrote:
>>> No - it's the variety of old French spoken by the Normans in the area=
now
>>> called Normandy. It was brought to England by William the Bastard, Duke=
of
>>> Normandy, and his followers in 1066. After defeating the English &=
having
>>> himself crowned king of England, the language became the official=
language
>>> of England for the next three centuries.
>>
>>Altho it's sometimes referred to as Anglo-Norman after 1066, since the
>>Norman French of England was influenced by Anglo-Saxon.
>
>Yes, indeed. The English form began to differentiate from that on the
>otherside of the Channel, so strictly Norman French was the dialect of
>Normandy but in England one should talk of Anglo-Norman. It was practice
>of schools to teach French as spoken in England hence in Chaucer's
>Canterbury Tales we have the nun who speaks French perfectly according to
>the school of St.Mary-atte-Bowe (may have misremembered the name!), but
>couldn't understand the French of Paris :)
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>
>And at 12:11 pm +0200 19/10/98, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>>At 00:48 19/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Quoth Arek Bellagio:
>>>> HI all. I heard the term Norman French the other day.. and I was=
wondering
>>>> if this was a type of 'old English' applied to French. Does anyone=
know? If
>>>> not.. what does it mean?
>>>
>>>Norman French was (and is) the version of French spoken in Normandy;
>>
>> So I'm speaking Norman French? (yes, I'm from Normandy).
>
>Don't know. I guess it depends how correct my informant was about the
>survival of patois in Normandy & where you were brought up. I guess, like
>most places, the urban areas speak standrard French and any surviving
>patois is to be found only in country areas.
>
>But Grandsire is a good English word :)
>
>(Just kidding - I know we got it from Anglo-Norman a few centuries ago)
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>
Really? I didn't know the name Grandsire existed in English.
Grandsire is a last name that you find only in Normandy. I know no other
French region where it exists.
Christophe Grandsire
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