Under the influence of French, Old English lost some of its inflections, acquired new words of Latin origin, and softened its pronunciation (blurring unstressed vowels and ultimately silencing the final e). 在法语影响下，古英语失去一些属折成份，增加新的拉丁语源同汇，语音软化(非重音元音含糊、尾元音e最后不发音)。
