(November 29, 2019 at 2:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/
..hmmmmm
You conveniently left out
Quote:About 10 percent of the Latin vocabulary has found its way directly into English without an intermediary (usually French).
English is in one of the Germanic language families (West Germanic, I think, but can't be arsed to look it up). Languages in the Latin family are referred to as 'Romance Languages', which manifestly do not include English.
Boru
What I always understood about the British Isles is that the immigration of European-Roman speaking waves is what started English; a language to make the diverse immigration movement understand itself.
In that regard any European wave immigrating to the isles of Britain was "speaking a Roman language to some extent".
