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Old July 15th, 2004, 03:35 PM
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Default Re: OT- Word of the day.
Yes I find if you know a bit of latin you have a vague idea of what romance words are. a large proportion of english is stolen from french (albeit a thousand years ago) almost the rest is germanic (which I mostly know from military study) and the rest are words the empire stole from anyone they conquered.

edit: just realised I am doing what Alneyan warned of, turning this into a etymological discussion.

[ July 15, 2004, 14:38: Message edited by: Randallw ]
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