RE: Wanted: Opinions on a grammar book

[linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com]

Sarah Bouchier wrote on 11/28/2006 01:11:31 PM:

> > how many more words do we commonly use in English that derive
> primarily 
> > from German(ic) roots?
> 
> One of the most often used words in our profession, 'help' for a start
> :)
> 
> Others that we in particular see a lot of include:
> 
> Back
> Begin
> End
> First
> Follow
> Help
> New
> Old
> Other
> See
> 
> In fact, quite a lot of our most commonly-used words are of Germanic
> origin.  It's rather interestingly the case that where there are
> Germanic-derived and Latinate-derived words that mean the same thing,
> using the Latinate version is seen as more 'educated'.
> 
> Gosh, it's amazing what you can learn from Google :)

Check out _The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language_, by 
Melvyn Bragg, for an absolutely fascinating (even if poorly cited) 
examination of how English developed and grew. The TV series was a lot of 
fun. There's also _The Story of English_, by Robert McCrum, William Cran, 
and Robert MacNeil, which doesn't have the British bias of the first.
 


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