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Re:The Chaos (1922) by jjtheblunt on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:56PM (#33070243)
I remember my Germanic linguistics prof saying, regarding English, the statistics of words used in English sentences are roughly 75% as you mentioned above (Germanic), but the dictionary entries are like 75% Latin and Greek variations.

The statistical conjecture of the Germanic linguist was that (roughly) 25% of the English dictionary is used for 75% of words in actual usage.

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