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May We Borrow Your Language?

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

May We Borrow Your Language?

By Philip Gooden

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The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings' Old Scandinavian to Persian, Sanskrit, Algonquian, Cantonese and Hawaiian, amongst a host of others, we have enriched our modern language with such words as tulip, slogan, doolally, avocado, moccasin, ketchup and ukulele. This boo...Show more

Historical and comparative linguistics

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9781786694553

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Head of Zeus

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2017

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