MMario, that is actually almost right! English is a creole of Saxon (the downtrodden at the time) and Norman (the Upper Crust); a pidgin will have formed with Saxon grammar substituting in Norman words, the way any pidgin forms when a people is conquering, or attempting to conquer, another who speak a different language. The children of the next generation, hearing the pidgin, will turn it into a creole - a full-fledged language with basic grammatical roots in the socially-inferior language and basic vocabulary from the socially-superior language. This is how we get words like s**t or f**k, which used to be the POLITE terms in Saxon (like defecate or have intercourse), but which became the rude words (as coming from Saxon) in the creole, while the original bad words from Saxon were lost. I wonder what they SAID when f**k was the polite term!