 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 422 pages
...the smaller ingredients, we find, on comparing the Teutonic with the Latin, or Neo-Latin or Norman elements in English, that the latter have a decided...Norman to Saxon was as four to six. Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to a classical... | |
 | 1861 - 674 pages
...words of Latin origin in the Lord's Prayer, nine-tenths of the English language are of Saxon origin. Sharon Turner, who extended his observations over a larger field; came to the conclusion that four-fifths were of native growth. Another writer supposing the whole number of English words to amount... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 452 pages
...all of which are of Saxon growth, occur over and over again in one and the same page. Thus, Hickcs maintained that nine-tenths of the English dictionary...Norman to Saxon was as four to six. Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,00.0 to a... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...growth, occur over and over again in one and the same page. Thus, Hickes maintained that nine tenths of the English dictionary were Saxon, because there...Norman to Saxon was as four to six. Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to a classical... | |
 | 1863 - 552 pages
...there were only three words of Latin origin in the Lord's Prayer ; that Sharon Turner was of opinion that the relation of Norman to Saxon was as four to six ; and that another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 pages
...impossible to classify English with any other of the established stocks and stems of human speech. Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients,...Norman to Saxon was as four to six. Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to a classical... | |
 | 1865 - 856 pages
...Latin origin in the Lord's Prayer. Sharon Turner, who extended his observations over a larger fieW, came to the conclusion that the relation of Norman to Saxon was as four to six. a more accurate inventory, and counting every word in the dictionaries of Robertson and Webster, M.... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1866 - 506 pages
...impossible to classify English with any other of the established stocks and stems of human speech. Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients,...38,000, assigned 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to its influence on the Turkish dictionary had not been estimated sufficiently high. I owe to Viscount... | |
 | 1868 - 878 pages
...the smaller ingredients, we find, on comparing the Teutonic with the Latin, or Neo-Latin, or Norman elements in English, that the latter have a decided...Norman to Saxon was as four to six Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to a classical... | |
 | 1868 - 856 pages
...because there were only three words of Latin origin in the Lord's Prayer. Sharon Turner, who extended hia observations over a larger field, came to the conclusion...Norman to Saxon was as four to six. Another writer, who estimates the whole number of English words at 38,000, assigns 23,000 to a Saxon, and 15,000 to a classical... | |
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Latin origin, the majority would be no doubt on the Saxon side. The articles, pronouns, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs, all of which are of Saxon growth, occur over and over again in one and the same page. Thus, Hickes maintained that nine-tenths of... 
