Life is a highway by rascal flatts
Two main factors: The Norman invasion and political unification. The Norman invasion introduced a great many French loanwords, some 40% of English vocabulary by Chaucer's time.
His janitor because all of them suck :)
1) The screen door screeched as I swung it open.
Onomatopoeia is ‘the naming of a thing with vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.’ The screen door screeched.