... . A Modern English dictionary like the oxford English dictionary has 13 volumes. Each volume is said to contain around half a million words. On the other hand, an estimate of the present vocabulary consists of more than a million words. The dictionary consists of words that have been in use after the middle of the 20th century. Slang words scientific terms and dialect expressions ... more widespread than that of any other language in the world. Some other languages like Spanish for example have a word building capability equivalent to that of English. English vocabulary is composed of a ...

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... reader would not be able to comprehend the text. "The main difference between the two was actually the vocabulary" ( Davis 168). They had a complicated system of nouns and adjectives, and had many different forms according to their grammatical relationships. ( Davis 221) Latin influenced English before the Anglo-Saxons arrived in England. The Germanic tribes who later settled on the Isles ... to reintroduce Christianity. As the religion spread English added a large number of Latin words to itself to express new ideas connected with the religion. However, this lead to the loss of grammat...

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... family of languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: • Latin and the modern Romance languages • The Germanic languages • The Indo-Iranian languages, including Hindi and Sanskrit • The Slavic languages ... in an alphabet called Runic, derived from the Scandinavian languages. The Latin alphabet was brought over from Ireland by Christian missionaries. This has remained the writing system of English. At this time, the vocabulary of Old English consisted of an Anglo Saxon base with borr...

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... a foreign language score higher on the SAT's. And students develop better listening and retention skills. The study of a foreign language helps improve English vocabulary and its proficiency. It also gives students a better understanding of the English language. Learning a foreign language will help to get into an out ... 't think they could learn to speak them. The students that wanted to take another language wanted, in order, French, German, Japanese, and Latin. Twenty-five students wanted to take French. (Take into effect that some wanted more than one language.) Nineteen students w...

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... Celtic and Germanic languages. The Celtic language was the first known, b/c it was written down by the Romans, and the Germanic had very little influence, only some prepositions. In 55 B.C. Latin was first introduced to the English language, when the Romans, led by Julius Caesar, invaded and conquered the Celts. Since the Celts had become slaves to the Romans they refuse ... an excuse to not to work. The only influence they had been to the name of some cites that end in "castra" or "chester." This is because "castra" is the Latin word for fort. Then in 410 the Roman Empire fell to the G...

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