vocabulary of an educated English speaker, about 5% of the words are borrowed from Greek. Most common Of the 500 most common words in English, 18 (3.6%) are of Greek origin: place (rank 115), problem (121), school (147), system (180), program (241), idea (252), story (307), base (328), center (335), period (383), history (386), type (390), music (393), political (395), policy (400), paper (426), phone (480), economic (494). See also List of Greek and Latin roots in English List of Greek morphemes used in English List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names Transliteration of Greek into English Classical compound Hybrid word Latin influence in English References Citations Sources Gaidatzi, Theopoula. July 1985. "Greek loanwords in English" (M.A. thesis). University of Leeds Konstantinidis, Aristidis. 2006. Η Οικουμενική Διάσταση της Ελληνικής Γλώσσας [The Universal Reach of the Greek Language]. Athens: self-published. . Krill, Richard M. 1990. Greek and Latin in English Today. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. . March, F. A. 1893. "The Influence of the Greeks on the English Language." The Chautauquan 16(6):660–66. —— 1893. "Greek in the English of Modern Science." The Chautauquan 17(1):20–23. Scheler, Manfred. 1977. Der englische Wortschatz [English vocabulary]. Berlin: Schmidt. Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.) External links Mathematical Words: Origins and Sources (John Aldrich, University of Southampton) English Greek