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  1. The influence of French on English pertains mainly to its lexicon, including orthography, and to some extent pronunciation.Most of the French vocabulary in English entered the language after the Norman Conquest in 1066, when Old French, specifically the Old Norman dialect, became the language of the new Anglo-Norman court, the government, and the elites.

  2. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.

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  4. Diacritics. The diacritics used in French orthography are the acute accent ( ́ ; accent aigu ), the grave accent ( ̀ ; accent grave ), the circumflex ( ̂ ; accent circonflexe ), the diaeresis ( ̈ ; tréma ), and the cedilla ( ̧ ; cédille ). Diacritics have no effect on the primary alphabetical order.

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