# The Century Vocabulary Builder

Author: Greever, Garland, 1883-1967; Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris), 1889-1947

Genre: Category: How To ...

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10073

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Century+Vocabulary+Builder+Greever&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Why did words having the same meaning find lodgment in the language in the first place? The law of linguistic economy forbids any such happening, and only through sheer good fortune did English come to possess duplications. The original Anglo-Saxon did not contain them. But the Roman Catholic clergy brought to England the language of religion and of scholarship, Latin. Later the Normans, whose speech as a branch of French was an offshoot of Latin, came to the island as conquerors. For a time, therefore, three languages existed side by side in the country--Anglo- Saxon among the common folk, Latin among the clergy, and Norman-French at the court and among the nobility. The coalescing of th...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-century-vocabulary-builder-10073/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-century-vocabulary-builder-10073/chapters/1/index.md)