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CONCLUSION ON CHAPTER I

English has taken a great number of words from other languages throughout its history. One of these languages was Latin, which has influenced English from its earliest days till present time. One should not mix the terms "source of borrowings" and origin of borrowing. It may be seen in contradictory marking of one and the same word in dictionaries. It is suggested that the term "source of borrowings" should be applied to the language from, which this particular word was taken into English. So when describing words as Latin, French or Scandinavian we must their source but not their origin. The term origin of the word should be applied to the language the word may be traced to e. g "table" is Latin by origin but French by source: school is Greek by origin but it came into English through Latin. Some word not traced to any language and their origin is not established yet, e.g. "ink" The source of borrowing is if great importance as it reveals the extralinguistic factors responsible for the act of borrowing, because all borrowed words possess all the characters of the language from which they were borrowed.
The amount of borrowings adopted into Modern English from both Latin during the Renaissance was considerable. The fashion of introducing these foreign words in written texts was, indeed, disproportionate, to the extent that many words entered the language deliberately. The situation of the English language changed dramatically in the Modern English period. English had been for a long time subordinated to two other languages: French and Latin, but in this new era its functions were expanded as it started to be used in the written mode, after having regained its lost prestige. To sum up, in the Early Modern English period the many Latin borrowings taking place add mostly to the differentiation of a more formal and sophisticated register or even to specialised fields, instead of adding to the general vocabulary of English, while in the Late Modern English period scientific Latin provided Latin loanwords with new technical meanings and new compound words were created after the Latin model.