Re: Edmonton Eskimos

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:54:52 -0600, Woody Tobias Jr wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

> "Chuck Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> German + French = English
> 
> Germanic based with a dose of French words. It is by no means based on the
> French language and is not on the Romantic branch. It just has a bunch of
> words that are borrowed from the French language.

English vocabulary is split roughly 60%-40% between words of Germanic and 
Romance origin, respectively. In several instances, we have two words of 
identical meaning, one Germanic, one Latinate. English grammar is heavily 
Romance-influenced.

-- 
Daniel Seriff

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