新拉丁语是指中世纪后主要用于国际科学次会遗传分类学和分类学方面的改进的拉丁语。
基于意为“生命”的拉丁语单词vita以及硫胺所属的那类化学物质amine(胺),冯克造出了这个新单词。
He made up the word based on the Latin vita meaning "life" and amine the class of chemicals that thiamine belonged to.
古英语的日耳曼用户(在使用这套字母时)打翻了一堆的拉丁语对字母发音的规则,于是古英语的使用者们决定他们需要一个新的字母来发W的音。
The Germanic pronunciations of Old English broke a bunch of rules that the alphabet was supposed to observe in Latin and so Old English speakers decided they needed a new letter to make the W sound.
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