while English has germanic grammar, 40% of its words come from romance/french origins, so it really is a mongrel language. Word origins in english are roughly 3

while English has germanic grammar, 40% of its words come from romance/french origins, so it really is a mongrel language. Word origins in english are roughly 30/30/25/15 french/latin/germanic/other, with more fancy words ('newspaper english'[1]) from romance and more daily words from germanic. [1]https://youtu.be/2OynrY8JCDM?t=6m43s https://youtu.be/2OynrY8JCDM?t=6m43s - interesting video overall