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Loanwords or foreignisms?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Yinquan Wang
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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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English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 55 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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