> But with all its manifold new words from other tongues, English could never
have become anything but English. And as such it has sent out to the world,
among many other things, some of the best books the world has ever known.
It is not unlikely, in the light of writing by English speakers in earlier
times, that this would have been so even if we had never taken any words from
outside the word hoard that has come down to us from those times. It is true
that what we have borrowed has brought greater wealth to our word stock,