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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I've always loved Graves and Hodges for building the idiosyncrasies of the English language's history into their guide to writing it logically. Your comment about the French (i.e., Latinate) vocabulary suggests you might have read that book. If so, perhaps I'm not alone in admiring it.
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No, I'm afraid I haven't come across that particular book, but I've had a long-standing interest in the history of the English language, and hence have acquired a small degree of knowledge of the subject.