One more: “Philip Durkin is the author of Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English. He makes the observation that, of the one thousand most common English words, just under half come from Latin or French. When we consider the entire body of English words, Dictionary.com estimates that 60% have Greek or Latin origins; the percentage grows to 90% when we look at technical and scientific language.

Since so many words in English have come from Latin or Greek (often through French), it is quite productive to study the orderly derivation of English words from classical Latin and Greek etymons.”

~ Sue Scibetta Hegland

Chapter Seven: It Runs In The Family