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blaesus | 6 years ago

Indeed, about 29% of English vocabulary came from French; yet another 29% are directly from Latin[0].

Take your comment as example: excluding the Anglo-Saxon words, 5 are directly from Latin and 2 from French:

Latin words: Latin, Latinus vocabulary, vocabulum directly, directus via, via erudite, eruditus

French words: French useful

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in...

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