Chrysti The Wordsmith: Linguistic Adoptees

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. American English cheerfully and promiscuously borrows vocabulary from almost every language on earth. We native English speakers daily employ terms that originated in Hindi German Italian Chinese Portuguese Creole and a host of other tongues. We have the Dutch to thank for the words booze easel and cookie booze comes from the verb bosan meaning to drink to excess. Easel derives from the Dutch Ezola meaning ass. A beast of burden that carries loads just as an easel bears a canvas. Our cookie was originally a Dutch word meaning a little cake from Italian we've adopted broccoli. The plural of Broc holo or little cabbage sprout granite is derived from the Italian word Granito meaning grainy R-word boondocks comes from the to Galad language of the Philippines. The original word into Gallagher was bun dock which means simply mountain. From the various languages of India come the words bandana bangle and Cheetah The

latter means speckled in the 1500s the Sanskrit word karma meaning act or deed made its way to the English language and we certainly would be linguistically impoverished without these Arabic derived terms. HAZZARD jar magazine coffee and Zenith interested in more foreign language adoptees type foreign words in English into your search engine. I'm Christie the wordsmith. Christy the wordsmith a sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.