The rest were gleaned from here, there, and the farthest corners Along the shores of the Mediterranean, they lingered in Greece, they built on the seven hills of Rome, and through the Romance language rejoined the Teuton strains to form our Twenty-five percent of our words migrated along the rivers fifty English. On other journeys they took the water route of the great midland sea. By one path they wandered up rivers, breasting the Danube into the heart of Europe, roaming westward with the Teutons and the Anglo-Saxon speech. Somewhere in the Near East tliey seem to have started, in that Garden of Eden of earliest man. Not two percent of our English words first rose in the British Isles. The American speech, like the American people, comes from all over the world. Word history traces the path of human fellowship, the bridges from mind to mind, from nation to nation.Īnd our language is truly international. To know the origin of words is to know how men think, how they have fashioned their civilization. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Copyright 1945 by Philosophical Library, Inc.
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