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- Title: Borrowed Expressions
- Author : John Middleton
- Release Date : January 29, 2014
- Genre: Travel & Adventure,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 110 KB
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The English language owes much of its richness to the countless expressions borrowed from other tongues, and Japan has made some notable contributions to the lexicon. Very few native speakers of English are aware, however, of the etymology of some of the Japanese words they use. How many people would have realised, for example, that “karaoke” is partly a corruption of English?