Citations:Anglish


 * 2005, Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, Handbook of Word-Formation, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781402035975), page 262:
 * This is in some degree a result of English being historically an amalgam of Germanic Anglish and Saxon, which contributed lots of small, pithy words to the vocabulary, with Latin-based French, which brought in lots of derivational constructions. There is still a notable tendency, 800 years later, for the short words to be those of Germanic origin and the long ones to come from Latin.