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Old 07-05-2007, 09:31 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by Superfraggle View Post
Three things to comment on...

The origins of English: it's comes from about 1/3 Anglo-Saxon (Germanic), 1/3 Latin, and 1/3 French. Toilet, for example comes from French, where the more Germanic version would be the john.
But but but... French is a latin derivative.
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