This file is an excerpt
from the September 1997 version of Mark Israel's AUE FAQ.
The file was re-generated Friday 23 January 2004 01:36 GMT.
To see the full AUE FAQ at Mark Israel's Web site, click here.
provenance of English vocabulary (notes by Lucia Engkent)
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Syllable Stress & Unstress by Howard Woods, a 1978 Govt. of Canada
publication, has this breakdown:
In a dictionary In a daily newspaper
(showing frequency of use)
Anglo-Saxon 20.2% 78.0%
French 28.3% 15.2%
Latin 28.5% 3.1%
Old Norse 1.4% 2.4%
Greek 3.6% 0.9%
other 18.0% 0.4%