The thing that I found most interesting in this chapter was the change in gender naturality from gramamatical gender. The thing I would like to learn more about is how even though middle english was heavily influenced by French our two languages are worlds apart today.
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English went through the Great Vowel Shift in late Middle English through Early Modern English. Anglo French and continental Parisian French (lang d'oui) eventually lost ground in England, but left behind lots of vocabulary items that were Anglo-Saxonized in spelling and pronunciation. Continental French then went through its own sound changes. Both English and French orthography are only semi-phonetic because of the different sound changes that each went through.
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