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It is estimated that around 10,000 words flooded
into English in this period. They are the
vocabulary about law ( e.g. judge, court, arrest,
sentence ), about war ( army, soldier, courage, destroy ),
about arts ( language, poet, literature, colour ) and
about food ( mutton, beef, pork, venison ).