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Where do English words come from? Old English? French? Old Norse? Latin? Greek? And is the core of English vocabulary Germanic. Let's investigate.

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00:00 New information has come to light
00:55 Babbel_sponsored
02:26 Stats from Wikepedia
09:34 the problems with words
12:47 Stats from 'Origins of the English Language'
13:43 The Greek problem
14:14 Other languages and eponyms
15:23 Is the core of English vocabulary Germanic?
22:46 Why is English vocabulary like this?