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Originally Posted by Xenophon
In English, many or most of the words we grabbed from scholarly Latin and Greek remain fusional. Antidisestablishmentarianism for one notorious example. These would be the ologies and isms and so on.
English -- we've got it all! (sort of  ) And we verb our nouns, too!
Xenophon |
Most of the words like that were "invented" in Victorian times; very few are "genuine" Latin and Greek words.