About 43,000 words. It's virtually impossible (and unuseful) to keep an exact count as new words are contantly formed and some ancient ones resurface from time to time .The 300 or 400 most frequent...
40 '/. of the English language---- It's difficult to answer, because are you including all the words in the English language or only commonly used ones? are you counting only Norman French, modern...
Because a large percentage of the English language comes from the five "romance" languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese and Romanian) of which Latin is the foundation. And because the French...