Borrowed words : a history of loanwords in English /

"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, and Yiddish. Philip Durki...

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Main Author: Durkin, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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