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English has had a lot of vocabulary from the Romance languages due to the influence of the Normans for a significant part of the UK's history, but the Netherlands was a part of either Spain or France for a large part of its history as well. Why does Dutch not have as many borrowings from them?

by /u/eshansingh in /r/AskHistorians

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