Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge(Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge).Latin and English.Do you know that more than half of the words in the English dictionary are Latin, and that you are speaking more or less Latin every day? How has this come about? In the year 1066 William the Conqueror invaded England with an army of Normans. The Normans spoke Frenchwhich, you remember, is descended from Latinand spread their language to a considerable extent over England, and so Norman-French played an important part in the formation of English and forms a large proportion of our vocabulary.