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90 percent of English words with more than one syllable are Latin based. Most of the remaining 10 percent are Greek based. A single Latin root generates 5–20 English words.
— Feb 24, 2016 10:09PM
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. . . compare a phoneme with a word root. Remember how we defined root above: a word part that carries meaning. To be a bit more precise: a word root is a semantic unit. This simply means that a root is a word part that means something. It is a group of letters with meaning. A phoneme, by contrast, is a word part that carries only sound.
— Feb 26, 2016 04:27AM
