Around 55% in terms of words derived directly from French, Latin or Greek. It was merely there to illustrate my point, English didn't follow a straight line, everyone speaks with an accent.
That's far too serious. Okay, it would be like if you were cooking a ham, but your ham was made up of almost 60% celery. It still comes out as a perfectly fine ham, and it taste... okay, but the color's a little off. Everyone who wants to eat it is a little put off, because even though it's shaped like a ham, built like a ham, it's only like, 12-15% pork, 60% celery, and the rest is sawdust. It might taste awesome, and it's still technically a ham, but the pig it came from is way different than all the other pigs, and he's only got 3 legs, and 2 hoofs. The poor thing is also oddly shaped, and doesn't squeal, and he cared less about his position in the pen than the other pigs.
I guess one could say the pig the ham came from was... imperfect =p
Edit: And yes, I know that the analogy is not ideal, because the ham's more than 12% pork, due to the bone structure being that of a pig, but in this case I'm talking about the meat, the part we actually eat, not the stuff we're making stock out of, or what holds the meat in place. Just a simplification to demonstrate a point. A 3 legged, 2 hoofed, pig-meat-on-a-stick-like point.
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