XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: nobody@home.com   
      
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   ed@somewhere.in.the.uk says...   
   >   
   > Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > > On 14/09/24 18:16, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> English is so riddled with Latin (often taken in through French) that   
   > >>  it's almost turned into a Romance language.   
   > >   
   > > As someone pointed out here quite recently: German is made harder for an   
   > > English speaker to learn because so much Germanic vocabulary -- words   
   > > that used to exist in English -- has simply dropped out of the English   
   > > language.   
   > >   
   >   
   > It's calculated that about 5.6% of German words are from Latin; whereas   
   > English has well over 60%.   
   >   
   > I can't help but wonder how to account for that, since, when Latin was   
   > the lingua franca of European education, German scholars used it too.   
   > But Germany had never become a Roman province; unlike Spain, France,   
   > Britain.   
      
      Quite aside from Roman occupation,  Latin was the   
   language of the  Catholic Church and many legal documents.   
      
      Janet   
      
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