History of the English Language
Jacobus
Genre: | Miscellaneous |
Subjects: | Nomenclature |
The writer notes with regard to the imitation of other languages as a cause of linguistic change, that in this respect 'our language has received no trifling mutation, or rather amendment; the learned have adopted almost all technical terms of arts and sciences from the Greek and Latin, for the sake of neatness and elegance' (104). | |
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