plus we don't speak Latin, well aren't we?........'i' in the plural would point very much towards it. :icon_scra
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Actually, the English language borrows its origins from everywhere.
When the Romans invaded (while I was still young) they brought a lot of Latin words and grammatical habits with them.
Then William the Conqueror took over and French words invaded the language - Beef, pork, mutton are all derived directly from French.
Courtesy of Viking invaders and Germanic Kings there is also a fair number of Germanic words in there.
Then, when international trading started we imported foreign words along with the products - tobacco and potato, for instance have Native American origins.
The French, of course, will have none of this. They have an organisation specifically to defend against adulterating their language with foreign words. That is why they coined the term "pomme de terre" literally "apple of earth" for potato and the less foreign sounding "tabac" for tobacco. They even coined a special French term for hamburgers but I cannot remember it.
Sometimes, when I see the Americanisation of our language and culture via T.V. and film I think that a similar attitude here would not go amiss.