Hmm, I heard several times that English has almost a double-size vocabulary[0] since it imported almost all of French on top of Anglo-Saxon, but this guy says it was only about 10,000 words, and there was a bit of Latin too. Now which is it?<p>Note that most other European languages also imported roughly the same scientific vocabulary from Latin and Greek.<p>[0] compared to other somewhat comparable languages such as German and French, and assuming you can find suitable criteria for determining what a word is; e.g., discounting compound words such as the Dutch <i>roltrommelhuisvuilophaalwagen.</i>