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It doesn't work all the time. English is full of nonsense like that. People always only remember half of this rule though.
Because English is three languages in a trench coat.
In a french coat
Hon hon hon!
Omelette du fromage?
False. It's the runoff of a language-rich neighborhood. Stewing in a ditch filled with what looks like mud but smells like a dead family of possums at the bottom of a park trash can.
You isn’t wrong
Also funnily enough, it's arguably the most representative of the Germanic languages as a whole. It started out as a form of Central Germanic. Then during the Viking Age it was heavily influencd by a Northern Germanic language, Old Norse.
Even the French influence is a very specific variety of French, since the Normans were actually descended from Vikings