This Earth. This Realm. This England, The Adventure of English Ep. 4
In Queen Elizabeth I s time, English began to expand to even greater depths. Overseas trade brought new words from France, as well as the now popular swearwords fokkinge (fucking), krappe (crap), and bugger from Dutch, in the 16th century. Sailors also brought all kinds of produce like apricots, bananas, limes, yams, cocoa, potatoes, port wine from Spain and Portugal, chocolate and tomatoes from France as well words from 50 other languages including coffee, magazine, and alcohol from Arabic
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