Borrowed wordsPhilip Durkin
Borrowed words
Philip Durkin · 2014
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About the book
"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 Durkin's full and accessible history reveals how, when, and why. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been."--Publishers website.
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 491
- ISBN
- 9780199574995
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