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Loanwords or foreignisms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Abstract

YINQUAN WANG in Nanjing, China, considers the ease with which English absorbs words from other languages and how such words are currently handled in the newsmagazines ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek’

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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