Why is English considered a Germanic language?

Here’s a great Quora answer to this question: Why is English considered a Germanic language and not a romance language?

This answer breaks down not just the overall vocabulary of English, but also the everyday vocabulary of English and the vocabulary used in specific works of literature versus legal and medical articles. This is really neat!

Also, who the heck thought of ticking off the words in a book by Mark Twain and assigning all the words to categories? I wonder if someone assigned this project to a grad student somewhere. I wonder if this was done before or after the invention of Find functions in word processors? Because if you want to calculate the number of German-derived words in a specific book, it sure would be handy to be able to Find “the” and “of” and “his” and so on, not just tick them off one word at a time from front to back of the book.

Regardless, this Quora answer then mentions grammatical structure and so forth. Definitely worth clicking through if you’re at all interested in this topic.

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