ng food & cookingРgratin?barbecue?wurst?sashimi?mao-taiР8РPart I Warm-up Question:РWhat foreign languages contribute most to the borrowings of English vocabulary?РLatin, French, Greek and Scandinavian?Languages.РWhat foreign language contributes least to the borrowings of English vocabulary?РFinnish.Р9Р*Loanwords in English?In 1973, puterised survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary. Their estimates for the origin of English words were as follows:Р*French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3% ?*Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24% ?*Germanic languages, including Old and Middle English: 25% ?*Greek: 5.32% ?*No etymology given or unknown: 4.03% ?*Derived from proper names: 3.28% ?*All other languages contributed less than 1%Р10
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