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Something like a quarter of English words are Germanic in origin, but mostly not modern German. Many of the identifiably German words in English are more recent
by kevinmchugh 5y ago
Something like a quarter of English words are Germanic in origin, but mostly not modern German. Many of the identifiably German words in English are more recent inventions (eg kindergarten) or yeah, Yiddish.
"And" is Germanic, but we don't think about that.