He absorbed a large vocabulary, but only later did he learn how to pronounce all the words that he learned.

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Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.

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Since 1950, there have been large gains on vocabulary and information subtests, at least for adults.

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Moreover, smart rejectionists long ago grasped the need to speak to the world at large in the vocabulary of liberal democracy even (especially) when one's aims are belligerent and illiberal.

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Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.

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So, an incoming message hit with this pattern analysis will be rejected if it contains a large proportion of the same vocabulary patterns.

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