That’s true but they’re not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I’m eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.
Castling: English word, cool and normal
En Passant: Fr*nch word, silly and weird
simple as
More like en pussynt because I got that dawg in me
Castle comes from French too.
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They might call it a c(a)ester, which I think is a parallel etymology with castle both from the Latin castrum.
Castles come from the French in general. Stone castles were a post Norman thing. Big wooden halls, Rohan style were the pre-Norman Norm
they’re also prenorman, the roman ones. some of which were still used into the norman era: i.e. the walls of York
That’s true but they’re not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I’m eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.
It gets a pass, cuz we anglicized it well enough
Here are some other French words that are anglicized well enough to be an English word of its own
Eg. war, guard, sturdy
If it was a cringe word like “rendez-vous” (showing all yourselves), castling would be ewww
Most war terms in English came from French on account of being conquered by the French via war