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Yes. English has the most words of any language, mostly because a lot of words are duplicated with separate Germanic and Latin origins. The latter came mostly f
by jackcosgrove 10y ago
Yes. English has the most words of any language, mostly because a lot of words are duplicated with separate Germanic and Latin origins. The latter came mostly from the Normans. Tack on straight Latin influence from the Church, and Greek influence from the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and some words are in triplicate or more.
- bwanab 10y agoMany Latin words entered old english in the 500 years that Rome occupied England and Wales.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThe Romans occupied southern Britain from 43AD to 410AD. During this time, British was spoken here, not English. Its direct descendants are Welsh, Breton and Cornish, not Modern English. Anglo-Saxon settlement of what is now England didn't start until approximately 450AD, and so Old English would not have been spoken here until then.