The wordEnglish, loanword champion of the world!It’s the number-one lender of words to other languages--but not everyone wants to borrow them There’s nothing like visiting Finland to make an English-speaker appreciate the value of words borrowed from other languages. Finnish, as I learned during a trip earlier this month, is an agglutinative language, in which parts of words stay distinct instead
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