If we look back to the 1800s, Latin, French, Greek ... I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some ...

A café might be the epitome of Frenchness, but the word itself comes from Arabic. Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP If you're speaking French on a daily basis, chances are that you are actually using ...

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He noted that the English words appearing in the French language ... Valley culture - and English phrases - have influenced both the French workplace and popular culture. Though a start-upper's ...

True, many of our familiar English words — and, for that matter, English itself — come from invaders (German first, then Norse, then French) coming to England and staying and becoming English ...

Eight years ago, the French ... English.” It doesn’t matter. English is supremely adaptable, a linguistic bring-and-buy yard sale that is unembarrassed by its theft of foreign words if they ...

For centuries the academy has been tasked with maintaining the purity of the French language, with English words seen as a particular threat. In February, the academy warned that hybrid ...