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Why did English borrow more from Latin and Greek than, e.g., German did, in scientific and p...
After that, people including the rulers wanted English to be more powerful as a language, which led to borrowing many words from Latin that was the lingua franca (in writing) at the time. … Latin (and some Greek as well) was the language used in this cultral expansion. And this was the time English borrowed Latin words the most. …