But many more words were added to the English language through the Norman Conquest. It is quite easy to see, from the great number of French words in the English language, that France and England must at one time have had a great deal to do with each other. But it was the English who used French words, and not the French who used English. This was quite natural when a Norman, or North French, duke became king of England, and Norman nobles came in great numbers to live in England and help to rule her. Sir Walter Scott, in his great book "Ivanhoe," makes one man say that all the names of living animals are English, like _ox_, _sheep_, _deer_, and _swine_, but their flesh when it becomes meat is given French names--_beef_, _mutton_, _venison_, and _pork_. The reason for this is easy to see: Englishmen worked hard looking after the animals while they were alive, and the rich Normans ate their flesh when they were dead. England never, of course, became really Norman. Although the English were not so learned or polite or at that time so civilized as the Normans, there were so many more of them that in time the Normans became English, and spoke the English language. But when we remember that for three hundred years French was spoken in the law courts and by the nobility of England, and all the English kings were really Frenchmen, it is easy to understand that a great many French words found their way into the English language. As it was the Normans who governed England, many of our words about law and government came from the French. Englishmen are very proud of the "jury system," by which every British subject is tried by his equals. It was England who really began this system, but the name _jury_ is French, as are also _judge_, _court_, _justice_, _prison_, _gaol_. The English Parliament, too, is called the "Mother of Parliaments," but _parliament_ is a French word, and means really a meeting for the purpose of talking. Nearly all titles, like _duke_, _baron_, _marquis_, are French, for it was Frenchmen who first got and gave these titles; though _earl_ remains from the Danish _eorl_. It is a rather peculiar thing that nearly all our names for _relatives_ outside one's own family come from the French used by the Normans--_uncle_, _aunt_, _nephew_, _niece_, _cousin_; while _father_, _mother_, _brother_, and _sister_ come from the Old English words.