English doesn't borrow from other languages...


	English doesn't borrow from other languages...

Lexica

12-19-2008 2:59 PM

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12-19-2008 4:56 PM

aklimento

Language reflect habits of carriers?

12-19-2008 5:29 PM

cakebelly

Steady on, there

12-19-2008 5:29 PM

cakebelly

12-19-2008 8:43 PM

Jorjor

It would be hard to find a major (1,000,000+ speakers) language English has NOT stolen from. A lot of minor languages as well. Off the top of my head, I can come up with Punjabi, Persian, Fijian, Carib, Icelandic and Farsi. Itès impossible to count all the place names in America that come from Indian languages.

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