Can You Correctly Name The Origin Of 10 Common Words?
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mikeyparry
10/10. All fairly obvious!
Leapy Lee
Jetty Newnham, maybe because the author chose so many? French words dominate our language by far, but the author chose not to include any of them.
Edna Mohrmann
10/10 that was really easy!
Ilias Tsiabardas
10/10 that was very easy
mikeyparry
10 / 10. All pretty obvious really!
David Roy
Jetty Newnham, it's because they both have Latin antecedents.
Alan Conyard
10/10 Thanks for answers. Not too difficult.
Jetty Newnham
10/10. Surprising how many Italian words became in common use in English.