% of English words from Latin and Greek

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Nov 5 05:16:54 UTC 2009


At 11/4/2009 10:31 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Of course any reasonable evaluation would have to reflect word frequency.
>The media, of course, would ignore that part, since the numbers wouldn't be
>shocking.

But the Anglo-Saxon words might be.

Joel

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