Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English by Philip Durkin

Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English

Philip Durkin

512 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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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, Chin...

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