ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY?

Bill Bryson says: "English is one of the great borrowing tongues deriving at least half of its common words from non-Anglo-Saxon-stock-" "A final curious fact is that although English is a Germanic tongue and the Germans clearly were one of the main founding groups of America, there is almost no language from which we have borrow few words than German.Among the very few are Kinde

Also in English, a) The words are created by error b) Words are adopted 3) words are created 4) words change by doing nothing 5) words are created by adding or subtracting something