Is English Romance?

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Is English Romance?Using words borrowed from another language does not make English suddenly a member of the language group which spawned that word.Why not?

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Gordon410Is English Romance?

Welcome to English Forums, Gordon.

Is English a Romance language?

You can find your answer in the definitions.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/romance

Romance:
Also, Romanic. Also called Romance languages. the group of Italic Indo-European languages descended since a.d. 800 from Latin, as French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Provençal, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Sardinian, and Ladino. Abbreviation: Rom.

English:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/english?s=t

the Germanic language of the British Isles, widespread and standard also in the U.S. and most of the British Commonwealth, historically termed Old English (c450–c1150), Middle English (c1150–c1475), and Modern English (after c1475).

Italian and German are both part of the Indo-European group, so their descendants are related, but separate lines.

Is English Romance?

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