As a native speaker of a Romance language (a.k.a. "latin" language) this puzzles me too. I'm guessing it's the vocabulary. English has imported a lot of Latin

As a native speaker of a Romance language (a.k.a. "latin" language) this puzzles me too. I'm guessing it's the vocabulary. English has imported a lot of Latin roots over hundreds of years. There's also the outcome of the battle of Hastings that may have tilted the results here.