But what's been fascinated by J. Walking just as a term, wondering where does J. Walking come from?
Two biggest sources of English words, of course,
are the historical Old English vocabulary or the Anglo-Saxon language of Britain and,
of course, the Latin-based Norman French that came in after the Norman Conquest.
Coming up on Word Matters, another pair of words doing the same job,
but slightly differently, and criminalized walking.
I'm Emily Brewster and Word Matters is produced by Merriam-Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media.
On each episode, Merriam-Webster editors Neil Servin, Amin Shea,
Peter Sokolowski and I explore some aspect of the English language from the dictionary's vantage point.
Imagine if you will wanting to describe a task that one can accomplish.
Would you say that it's doable or is it feasible?
Is there a difference?
And how did English end up with so many pairs of words for communicating a single idea?
First up, we have Peter Sakalowski with Old English and Latin Doubles.
such a rich vocabulary in English is
because we have borrowed words from all different kinds of sources.
And in fact, borrow is this funny word that linguists use because we never give the words back.
That means they've become part of the English language.
But these two biggest sources of English words, of course,
are the historical Old English vocabulary or the Anglo-Saxon language of Britain and,