Favourite Strain of Ebola?

Anglo sexy.

 

...look in the mirror, that's all the evidence you will ever need.

 

Harsh

 

Have you never read bill Bryson's " the mother tongue" or whatever it's called? It is 70% French and you don't need to mention Latin because French comes from Latin anyway

 

I have a copy in the house, and you don't need to mention French because it comes from Latin anyway.

 

It's a good book, would you concur?

 

It's an excellent book, but I've been really interested etymology since my days learning Dutch and noticing many common roots. I've also tried a couple of his travel books but find them a bit boring.

 

It certainly makes things if you are trying to work out the meaning of a word you don't know. I wish my school did Latin when I was there, then knowing the stem of a word would be even easier.