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Anyone know of a history of how French lost its status as lingua franca in favor of English?

It seems like it would've been inconvenient to switch, especially for people in commerce, so there must've been a lot of inertia.

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Mignon Fogarty 2y ago

nostr:npub1q5sptv0e49p86dpmt06kz5ghne4hl7qjekxxnygn7nnn5ldhslssratkwr Henry V played an important part of making English the language of England again after the Norman Invasion. http://www.englishproject.org/march-henry-v-and-french-language

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