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Cover
Welcome Page
About May We Borrow Your Language?
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
A note on the principal languages and types of English referred to in May We Borrow Your Language?
Wealh (?c.690)
Ping (?eighth century)
Cumb (770)
Cwen (?early ninth century)
Buton (?ninth century)
Lust (888)
Skin (tenth century)
Thorp (tenth century and earlier)
Pedder (1160s)
Wickede (1275)
Ceorl (c.1275)
Pork (c.1300)
Arrive (c.1300)
Hasard (c.1300)
Big (c.1300)
Chivalrie (c.1300)
Vicar (early fourteenth century)
Lavatory (1370s/early twentieth century)
Salary (1377)
Tragedy (c.1380)
Jargon (1386)
Luke warme (1398)
Manure (1416)
Cabin (1440)
Morgage (c.1450)
Acceleration (1490)
Fuck (early 1500s
Dunce (1531)
Gooseberry (1533)
Fall (1545)
Bona fide (1540s)
Alchocol (1543)
Bum (1547)
Barbarian (c.1550)
Utopian (1551)
Turkey (1555)
Sycophant (1575)
Tulip (1578)
Promethean (1594)
Hum (1598)
Peccadillo (1600)
Coffee (1601)
Multitudinous (1603)
Disaster (1604)
Rebus (1605)
Delphian (1625)
Meretricious (1626)
Clue (?1630s)
Juggernaut (1638)
Bathos (1638)
Telescope (1648)
Quarantine (1649)
Lexicographer (1658)
Shibboleth (1658)
Terrific (1667)
Bloody (1676)
Slogan (1680)
Barbecue (1697)
Augustan (1706)
Ketchup (1711)
Mumbo-Jumbo (1738)
Gauche (1751)
Serendipity (1754)
Kayak (1757)
Sandwich (1762)
Xxxxxxx (1763)
Lackadaisical (1768)
Kangaroo (c.1770)
Tabu (1777)
Placebo (1785)
Panopticon (1790)
Totem (1791)
Murphy (1811)
Frankenstein (1818)
Pasta (1830)
Bowdlerize (1836)
Ok (1839)
Oxbridge (1849)
Nirvana (1864)
Jehad (1869)
Agoraphobia (1871)
Bulldozer (1876)
Doppelgänger (1879)
Balaclava (1881)
Booby-Prize (1889)
Chutzpah (1892)
Kamikaze (1896)
Detente (1908)
Strafe (1915)
Bimbo (1919)
Robot (1920)
Doolally (1925)
Agitprop (1925)
Stalinist (1930)
Whodunnit (1930)
Nylon (1938)
Quark (1939)
Mae west (1940)
Mondegreen (1954)
Laser (1960)
Paparazzo (1961)
@ (1971)
Watergate (1368/1972)
Meme (1976)
24/7 (1985)
Precariat (1990)
Sudoku (2000)
Anthropocene (2000)
Coda: Humblebrag (2010)
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