词汇学_lexic3.pptVIP

“…The English language has vast debts. In any dictionary some 80% of the entries are borrowed”. English is supposed to have the most copious (丰富的) vocabulary of all the language in the world, estimated at more than a million words. --The Encyclopedia Americana Native words are the foundation and the core of English vocabulary. They are words of Anglo-Saxon origin They are words whose origin cannot be traced to any other languages. Warm-up exercise Can you infer the modern English spelling of the following old English words? Mann Wīf Hūs