Summary
From such times as the 1066 Norman Conquest, English language has developed and changed as it takes influence from various other languages, in particular French and Latin. Thousands of words we use so naturally today have been 'borrowed' and anglicized until they no longer look so different to our 'own'. The assimilating of these words has stayed consistant to today, however the French words taken remain recognisable to the language (accents etc.). Due to the French borrowing from the Latin also, the English language has even more foreign routes as language is bounced between with a mixture of content and function words borrowed, the idea of a 'pure language' is non-existant.
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