From what little I know about linguistics, Danish had a lot of influence on early English. Words like skirt and hug. Some people say English is derived from German, but that is clearly false. English & German are derived from "proto-germanic". They are siblings. If my understanding is correct, Old English was heavily influenced by Norse when the Danes ruled England. Then a lot of French vocabulary words were added under Norman rule, leading to Middle English. (I watch Lang Focus on YouTube). Some say English is actually Romance or creolized, but I think that is an exaggeration. With a good vocabulary (and a bit of creativity), one can write extensive paragraphs without using any Latin/Romance words. There is no real good point to doing so, other than as an interesting exercise.
As for the David Chart influence, I totally get that. When writing for publication, there needs to be a consistency of word style. I also had to conform to format. As a side effect, in casual writing for this game, I finally stopped using the ArM4 (adapted) convention of using +1/+3 for Minor/Major Virtues.