Analysis: the prime minister joins Del Boy and Shakespeare in fusing French-English for effect
Franglais has come a long way since the Norman Conquest of 1066, though the word – a portmanteau of Francais and Anglais – seems only to have been officially coined in 1959 by French grammarian Max Rat in an article published in France-Soir.-century American writer Mark Twain used a mixture of French and English in his book The Innocents Abroad for comedic effect. In the trenches, during the first world war, English speaking troops evolved ‘Tommy French.
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