19 Imitative words are words that sound like the thing or action they stand for.
20 The other one fifth is made up partly of borrowed words and partly of three other kinds of words: words from the names of peoples and places; imitative words; and invented words.
21 But there are probably more.
22 The old words which were born centuries ago in the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and French languages make up four fifths of the English language.
23 Scholars guess that English has about 600, 000 words.
24 There is no need to say anything about these words, for they speak for themselves.
25 Ampere, volt and watt are all units of electricity, and they are named for the men who discovered them.
26 New words continue to come into the language at such a rate that no dictionary could possibly keep up with them.
