• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Absorbing foreign words has been happening since forever in English. Example: Mirror is an English word, right? No, it’s a loan word from French, introduced after the Norman conquest in 1066. The English word is “looking-glass”.

    Don’t have a cow (English), what’s your beef (French)?