In Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some of the ...

Lexical borrowing, or the direct transfer of words from one language to another, has interested scholars for millennia, as evidenced already in Plato's Kratylos dialogue, in which Socrates discusses ...

English is a rich melting pot of words borrowed and adapted from languages across the globe. Many long, elegant, or even tongue-twisting English words have surprising backstories that trace back to ...

Researchers have investigated the ability of machine learning algorithms to identify lexical borrowings using word lists from a single language. Results show that current machine learning methods ...

Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word “deepfake” into Korean. A senior researcher at the National Institute of Korean Language, a government regulator, Kim ...

Alcohol is prohibited in some Arab countries, but did you know the word alcohol originally came from the Arabic 'al-kuhul'? Slalom comes from the Norwegian word 'slalam' and literally means sloping ...