From: Mike '/m' 

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:28:20 -0600, David N. Barnett
 wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:15:34 +0000, adam flinton
> wrote in message :
>
>| > Again, what's the difference 
>| > (well actually they're quite different, only some words in Finnish are
taken
>| > from Swedish)
>| >
>| >
>|
>|
>| & surprizingly few from the slavic languages........(i.e. ruski ezik)
>
>Similarly, English is a Germanic language, but much of our vocabulary
>comes from French and other Latin-derived languages.


One interesting aspect of this is in the area of food.

When the farm animals are out in the fields, the English names typically
are Germaniic.  When those animals are on the table, the English names are
typically French.

 /m

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