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Borrowed Words

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Borrowed Words

By Philip (Oxford University Press) Durkin

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About the book

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, andYiddish. Philip Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once theyhave been. The long documented...Show more

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9780199574995

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Oxford University Press

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2014

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Hardcover

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