Wine vessels kept them fresh and free from a vinegar smell. In medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church supported wine because the clergy required it for the Mass. Monks in France made wine for years, aging it in caves. An old English recipe that survived in various forms until the 19th century calls for refining white wine from bastard—bad or tainted "bastardo" wine. The English word "wine" comes from the Proto-Germanic "*winam", an early borrowing from the Latin "vinum", "wine" or "(grape) vine", itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem *"win-o-" (cf. , "gini"; Ancient Greek: "oinos"; Aeolic Greek: "woinos"; Hittite: "wiyana";
French language in Morocco French language in Morocco French is one of the two prestige languages of Morocco, and is often used for business, diplomacy, and government, serving as a lingua franca. Aleya Rouchdy, author of "Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic", said that For all practical purposes, French is used as a second language." Different figures of French speakers in Morocco are given. According to the OIF, 33% of Moroccans speak French, among them 13.5% are fully francophone (native speakers) and 19.5% partially francophone. In 1912 the French colonial authorities in Morocco introduced the French language to the country, making it the