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Words such as 'formula' and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but did you know 'wall' and 'kitchen' come from Latin too?

They were borrowed during the Roman occupation of a part of Europe that spoke the ancestor of English.

This infographic shows six of these early borrowings into West Germanic and their descendants in English, Dutch, and German:

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