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Oh interesting, I didn't know that. It's an even older name than I thought!

And the actual word is French too...

...although the French spell it with an extra "r". And they had more ships that were named Entreprenant(e) (Enterprising) than Entreprise...

Indeed they did - all the way back to 1672:

> .although the French spell it with an extra "r".

We don't:

    enterprise
    entreprise

It's not "entrerprise" (that'd be an additional 'r').

It's not totally unlike "center", which is "centre" in french and also "centre" in UK english (but pronounced "center", unless I'm mistaken).