French phrases hidden in English words.

Browsing various websites I came across an interesting video that inspired me to write a short post. Have you ever had the feeling when you were thinking about where certain words or phrases in the language come from? Or words in one language seemed to you to be very similar to another language? I had.

There’s nothing new in the fact that many words in the English are borrowed from French, and conversely. But did you know that some of the words are a combination of whole phrases? If you did, that’s great! :-)  But for those who didn’t know, I recommend you to watch the video below.

My personal favorite ones are: porcupine, denim and mayday. It changes a lot, doesn’t it? :-)

I hope you like this short post :-)

Bye!