That might be true if you just count up every word in the dictionary by origin. However if you weight the words by frequency, Germanic will be way higher. That

That might be true if you just count up every word in the dictionary by origin. However if you weight the words by frequency, Germanic will be way higher. That is, if you take a transcript of an average conversation in English, the proportion of words inherited from Old English (i.e., Germanic) will be much higher than 26%.