> use the latin based ones you sound like being snob or "upper class" or very formal (and wanting to seem so) I'm guessing that distinction comes from the norm

> use the latin based ones you sound like being snob or "upper class" or very formal (and wanting to seem so) I'm guessing that distinction comes from the norman conquest, with the upper class speaking French with the latin version for 500 years and the lower class speaking a germanic version.