% of English words from Latin and Greek

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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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
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> Margaret Lee
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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
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> Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 5:33 PM
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> It's all Greek to me.
> :)
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Well, as a Greek friend of mine liked to say, "It's all mathematics to me." ;-)

-Wilson
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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.
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> Mike Sheehan
> wordmall at aol.com
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