A news report in the Brisbane newspaper, The Courier Mail, refers to the considerable number of English words with a Greek root.
According to Oxford Dictionary, a total of 11,555 words have a Greek origin, pointing out that although several of them are no longer in use, a still a significant number of words that originate from the ancient Greek are included in the English language after making their way into the English vocabulary through Latin and French.
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posted on Thursday, May 15