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Anglo-Saxon words make up what fraction of the most commonly used words in our language? four-fifths two-fifths one-fourth

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"Only one-fourth of the words in the English dictionary are of Germanic origin. ... about four-fifths of the words you use most often in daily speech are of Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon, origin."

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