% of English words from Latin and Greek

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:15 AM -0500 11/3/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
>... leaving no native content whatsoever...
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>Mark Mandel

Well, Old/Middle English may be seen as one (or two) of those "other
languages".  After all, they had their own army and navy (mutatis
mutandis), distinct from the current one(s).

LH

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>On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  ...and, of course, 20 percent from other languages...
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>>  Margaret Lee
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>>  --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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>>  From: Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
>>  Subject: Re: % of English words from Latin and Greek
>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 9:53 AM
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>>  If I recall correctly, I once read=A0that about 60 percent of English
>>  words=
>>   come from Latin, and about 20 percent from Greek.=A0Many years ago, I
>>  used=
>>   to teach a course called Vocabulary Development, and I think this was in
>>  o=
>>  ne of the course textbooks at the time.=20
>>  =A0
>>  Margaret Lee
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>>  ________________________________________
>>  Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
>>  Adjunct Professor of English & Linguistics
>>  Department of English
>>  Hampton University=20
>>  Hampton, VA 23668
>>  757-727-5769(voice);757-727-5084(fax)
>>  margaret.lee at hamptonu.edu
>>  mlee303 at yahoo.com
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>>  --- On Sun, 11/1/09, David A. Daniel <dad at POKERWIZ.COM> wrote:
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>>  From: David A. Daniel <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
>>  Subject: Re: % of English words from Latin and Greek
>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 5:33 PM
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>>  It's all Greek to me.
>>  :)
>>
>>
>>  __________________________________________
>>  We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
>>  Of
>>  Michael Sheehan
>>  Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:24 PM
>>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  Subject: % of English words from Latin and Greek
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>>  This may be an impossible question, but does anyone have any idea
>>  (even rough) as to what percentage of English words came directly from
>>  Greek and what percentage directly from Latin? Complicating things, of
>>  course, is that many Latin words derived from Greek forms.
>>
>>  Mike Sheehan
>>  wordmall at aol.com
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