Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

And a lot of the words that we use for electroencephalograms and seizures are French, like grand mal, petit mal, you know. matched

Yeah, probably a lot of culinary terms. matched

There's a lot of like those more modern terminology. matched

But if you talk about just the core vocabulary, that's more Germanic. matched

So our English is 26% Germanic, 29, 30% French, 29% Latin. matched

6% Greek, 6% all other languages, and 4% of words derived from proper names and can't be tied to a specific language. matched

English has the most words of any language, but it's partly because it is an amalgam of these other languages. matched

So where do a lot of the French words come from, Cara Dino? matched

Ooh, I mean, probably some sort of earlier Latin influence, no? matched

Well, that was a good, that was a question is like the, a lot of French words are romantic and they do have a Latin origin. matched

So how much is that responsible for the Latin origin words? matched

But there's words that came to us directly from Latin and ones that passed through French to get to it. matched

So those are considered the French ones. matched

So they say a lot of it probably goes back to the Norman invasion of 1066 because that was in French. matched

Like everyone knows that garage is French, right? matched

But do you know that the word joy is French? matched

Joy is French? matched

What was the Simpsons one? matched

But also the percentage depends on how you count words. matched

Like do you count every version of joy, joyous, joyful, you know, whatever, as separate words? matched

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