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thumb|right|350px|According to one study,<!-- THIS IS MEANINGLESS: As a statistical rule, --> However, the percentage of loans in everyday conversation varies by [[dialect and idiolect, even if English vocabulary at large has a greater Romance influence.

Many loanwords have entered into English from other languages.<!--THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE LOANWORDS CONCEPT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ARTICLE, AND, PER WP:VERFY, WIKILINKS DO NOT CONSTITUTE SOURCING OF CONTENT. If another article contains relevant sources, they must be mover, in their entirety, here.--> English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings,<!--SAME COMMENT: NO MENTION OF THE VIKINGS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ARTICLE... . --> and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin. Estimates of native words derived from Old English range <!--from 20%&ndash; THIS 20% NOT FOUND ANYWHERE IN ARTICLE.--> up to 78%,<!--THIS CITATION COVERS ONLY THE LAST SENTENCE.--> with the rest made up of outside borrowings. These are mostly from Norman/French,<!--SAME COMMENT: NO MENTION OF THE FRANKISH ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE ARTICLE... . -->

Loanwords

A computerized survey of 75,150 words in the third edition of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, published by Finkenstaedt and Wolff in 1973<!--Text does not to so fully reproduce content in the citation, which is available via mouse-over and click.--> estimated the origin of English words to be as follows:

  • French (including Old French: 11.66%; Anglo-French: 1.88%; and French: 14.77%): 28.30%;
  • Latin (including modern scientific and technical Latin): 28.24%;
  • Germanic languages (including Old English, Proto-Germanic and others: 20.13%; Old Norse: 1.83%; Middle English: 1.53%; Dutch: 1.07%; excluding Germanic words borrowed from a Romance language): 25%;