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Building a Better Vocabulary. Episode 34, Words English Borrowed and Never Returned [efilm]

2019
English is notorious for being an omnivorous language. Substantially more than half of English vocabulary is from languages other than its Anglo-Saxon ancestor, Old English. Why do words get borrowed, and how do these words eventually settle in and become just as familiar as English ones? Find ou...
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