English is famously a layered language. Its Anglo-Saxon core sits beneath a dense Norman-French crust
(after 1066), overlaid with Latin and Greek scholarly vocabulary, then dusted with words pulled in from every empire,
trade route, and cultural contact. Click a bar or a legend item below to focus on one source; the totals show the rough shape
of the donation — not raw frequency (common words still skew Anglo-Saxon), but the variety of sources contributing to the lexicon.