The early form of English is quite similar to German. After all both of them belong to the same language family, namely Germanic. It is not surprising that there are many words from German… I have found a very useful article about the German words in English. Although sometimes you can guess from the spelling and pronunciation, sometimes it is quite hard to distinguish them from real English words. Since it is a little long, I will publish the article into 3 parts. It is a valuable source of information for us – the language lovers…
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Posted by Hazal Didem YENER on January 12, 2013 at 12:18
Interesting. Thank you for sharing this.