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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thank you for correcting me! It's certainly true to say, though, that far more people in the 1950s and 1960s had an understanding of Latin than do today. I wasn't taught it in school, but learnt both Latin and Greek with the OU.
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I think about the only place Latin is used here is in the medical field. Many of those words have Latin roots. IIRC.
Kids here now have to take one year of foreign language in school. I think the language offered is French.