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- All languages borrow words, but many change the rules to fit their phonetics. For example, photograph is a Greek word. Ph has the sound /f/ in Greek. English has kept the ph, but Spanish has changed it to f as in fotografia. This is why English spelling is so difficult and often does not make sense, even for native English speakers.
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In our first extract, Professor Crystal discusses a number of English words and explains why there are such differences between their spelling and pronunciation. As he explains ‘There’s a story behind every word.’ Many of these stories relate to the influence of other languages on English spelling, for example: Why strudel and not stroodle? When Ge...
In the second extract, taken from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Professor Crystal demonstrates the significant impact that other languages have had on English vocabulary. He explains: English, perhaps more than any other language, is an insatiable borrower. Whereas the speakers of some languages take pains to exclude foreign w...
In this final extract, taken from David Crystal’s 50 Questions About English Usage, Professor Crystal begins by explaining the origins of accents in English spelling: They were first introduced in unfamiliar loanwords as an aid to reading. In some cases they remind people that a vowel has to be sounded. A final e in words like same and home is sile...
Many loanwords have entered into English from other languages. [not verified in body] [4] [page range too broad] English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings, [5] and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin.
Jan 22, 2017 · English has borrowed plenty from other languages, but it’s a two-way street: words like le weekend in French, párking in Spanish, and intānetto (Internet) in Japanese are becoming increasingly common around the world.
Oct 1, 2018 · English is a delectable, slow-cooked language of languages. As lexicographer Kory Stamper explains, “English has been borrowing words from other languages since its infancy.” As many as 350 other languages are represented and their linguistic contributions actually make up about 80% of English!
The influence of other languages on English is especially visible in the number of borrowed, or loan, words. Borrowed words are words that are adopted from one language into another with little or no alteration.
Oct 11, 2018 · English has unashamedly borrowed words from more than 300 other languages, and there's no sign that it plans to close its lexical borders any time soon.
