2.Renaissance promoted flooding of a large number of Latin and words into English.
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- About 50% of all English words come from Latin and a large number of those have their ultimate origin in Greek.
- English Renaissance brought over 10000 new words from ______ and ______ into English language. A: Latin; Greek B: Latin; French C: French; German D: Greek; French
- Printing press brought the Greek and Roman classics and thousands of Latin words and Greek words came into English.
- The vocabulary of the English is large because () . A: the English do not like to speak other languages B: it came from different other languages C: many English words come from Latin D: Britain has a long history
- Old English vocabulary was essentially _______ with a number of borrowings from Latin and Scandinavian.