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The English language has borrowed many words from other cultures or languages. For examples, see Lists of English words by country or language of origin and Anglicisation. Some English loanwords remain relatively faithful to the original phonology even though a particular phoneme might not exist or
DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE: in which The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, and ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS by EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. To which are prefixed, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, and AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, A.M. In TWO Volumes VOL. I
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition. Free site. MW: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. MW Online Archived 22 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine: Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Subscription required. OED: Oxford English Dictionary. Ed.
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare. In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin. [1]
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Loanwords per WP:M, are not to be italicized in the English Wikipedia.All loanwords are taken from Lists of English words by country or language of origin.If you know a loanword not included on this list please add it; if you have concerns that words included are not loanwords, please raise them on the talk page.
One notable German word in the English language is "kindergarten", meaning "garden for the children". The first kindergarten outside the German area was founded in 1851 in London. Five years later, Margarethe Schurz opened the first kindergarten in America in Watertown, Wisconsin. The language in the first kindergarten was German, as they were ...
The list of African words in Jamaican Patois notes down as many loan words in Jamaican Patois that can be traced back to specific African languages, the majority of which are Twi words. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most of these African words have arrived in Jamaica through the enslaved Africans that were transported there in the era of the Atlantic slave trade .