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1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
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35. _How many words end in Ceed?_
Three.

36. _What are they?_
Exceed, proceed, and succeed.

37. _How many of the English words are derived from the Latin?_
About, three-fourths.

38. _What Language is called "Our mother tongue?"_
Anglo-Saxon.

39. _From what language do we get most of our Scientific terms?_
The Greek.

40. _How many English words begin with_ IN _as a prefix?_
Two hundred and fifty.

41. _How many begin with im?_
Seventy-five.

42. _How many begin with un?_
About two thousand.

43. _Were final E not silent, what would be the result?_
Another syllable would be formed.

44. _When is final E dropped in spelling?_
Before vowel terminations mostly.

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