That's what gives english its 'je ne sais quois' of definition where it begins and ends. =) From my experiences of learning Hungarian and Polish it looks that the rest of the world is assimilating english words into their own language structure. Hungarian examples: garage = garazs, jungle = dzsangel (said roughly the same as in english). We [Americans] adapt foreign phrases, mostly in small social circles, to appear more affluent and traveled but the rest of the world is looking to relate more to us [Americans] on a linguistic level. As for how many did we steal? Growing every day through popular social circles, some perpetuated by television. As the world community communications increase, evident by The Return of the King's unprecedent simultaneously release in 28 countries, more cross-culturing is bound to happen.

English is definitely not "THE hybrid language" - most languages have developed some creole elements due to language contact - it definitely happened much more quickly and radically than some other creoles, however. The Norman Invasion brought Norman French into direct political contact with Anglo Saxon, which at the time was much closer to its Germanic roots than English is today. French then became the only language used for legal writing, marketing, etc. and so no real documentation exists of the changes which occurred in the development of "English" between 1066 and around the time of Chaucer.

Wait - this wasn't your question. You wanted to know if English has more words than other languages? Absolutely not. But it does tend to borrow words rather than retranslate or readapt morphologically, which makes us seem like linguistic thieves, at times.

I could ramble about this shit for hours, so just tell me when to shut up.