[Sca-cooks] eths and thorns, oh my

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Misha
>  Didn't English come about through the fusion of Norman-French and Anglo-Saxon
>  English? And what is really screwed up is that 60% of our language comes from
>  latin where the other 40% is german, yet they call us a Germanic language.
>  Weird

English *vocabulary* is about 70 per cent from Latin or French. But
the *structure* of English is more closely related to other Germanic
languages. And it is the basis of the language, not loan words, that
determines to which language family it belongs.

Anahita