English, the mongrel tongue

May We Borrow Your Language? examines the linguistic peculiarities of English

MAY WE BORROW YOUR LANGUAGE? How English has Stolen, Purloined, Snaffled, Pilfered, Appropriated and Looted Words from all Four Corners of the World Philip Gooden Head of Zeus/Speaking Tiger 359 pages; Rs 799 Philip Gooden, who writes books about language as well as historical crime novels, calls the English language “a great borrower, a practiced thief.” May We Borrow Your Language? examines the linguistic peculiarities of English, and how the language has borrowed and “stolen” words from other languages down the centuries — from the ...

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English, the mongrel tongue