Why when the Normans so passionatly despised the English did they keep the English title-Earl?

The Normans came in and latinised Anglo Saxon laws and Customs (they did not change much, onlyy the language,England was the most developed country in Europe at the time but to make it more to their ears they latinised what was already here) but why did they keep the title Earl when they had brought Dukes ect?|||They didn't. In early Norman times, "count:" was the title. "Earl" is an old English word related to the old Norse word, "jarl" See derivation below:








EARL, Eng. law. A title of nobility next below a marquis and above a viscount. 2. Earls were anciently called comites, because they were wont comitari regem, to wait upon the king for counsel and advice. He was also called shireman, because each earl had the civil government of a shire. 3. After the Norman conquest they were called counts, whence the shires obtained the names of counties. They have now nothing to do with the government of counties, which has entirely devolved on the sheriff, the earl's deputy, or vice comes.





Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)|||'Eorl' is roughly equivalent to 'count', and it was probably just easier to use when dealing with the locals. In Scotland, the Old English 'thegn' (later spelled 'thane') replaced the Gaelic 'toiseach'.





The crackpot - and more amusing - answer is that, considering that the history of a certain four-letter word beginning with 'c' and sounding rather like 'count' dates right back to Old English, using the term 'eorl' would have avoided certain . . . creative . . . mispronounciations of 'count'.