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Originally Posted by Agema

English does not really have a formal standard in the way (to the best of my knowledge) that Latin did.

The formal standard of English is a very vulgar Latin. It's used in formal documents, encyclopedias, etc. The grammar has changed, but not the vocabulatory. Here's a short passage from Wikipedia article about Scientific Method, with non-Latin words emboldened and links to etymology for Greek and Latin words.

Scientific method refers to bodies of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.

[Agema]

Heh, nice one.

I might suggest the nearest that English has had to a formal language used in courts, literature and by the upper classes was around 11-14th centuries, and that formal language was French

Some Latin vocabulary was reintroduced via French, and more Latin and Greek was added because the people who used many terms of science and officialdom had extensive classical educations and made new words from them.