Five Words You Didn’t Know Were Actually French
An interesting and obscure history of ancient language invasions.
6 min readMay 11, 2022
Any native English speaker who has studied basic French has surely seen some of the more obvious examples of similar, or even identical words in both languages. “Attention,” “chef,” and of course, “entrée,” are just a few stark examples of the over 7,000 French words that…