Introduction

During the colonial period, the colonial dominance was common in developing economies. The colonial government did not only influenced democratic power, but also culture and language. For instance, countries colonized by French ended up using French as the official language.  Similar situation was witnessed as the Britain colonies adopted English as the national language (Armstrong & Pooley, 2010). However, the two languages differ significantly in tense, accent, culture, pronunciation, and other language attributes. French alongside Italian and Spanish languages are believed to be of Indo-European origin. On the other hand, English is associated with the common wealth nations and the Great Britain. The two languages greatly have influence on each other with the French language strong influence over the British English as early as 11 century. Following the influence the two languages have had on each other, it noted that these two world most popular languages share in common grammatical features. Besides, French and English contain many cognates. However, minor differences may be notice between these world leading languages.

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