The English Language is a massive resource of foreign words. Over 100 thousand words from Hindu, a legacy of the days of empire. There are words adopted into English from all around the world, e.g. Aal, a species of Indian plant used for its red dye, to Zori, a Japanese sandal.
So when we speak in English, we have at our beck and call words from many other languages, true polyglot speakers of a portmanteau œcumenic language.
Michael Heaney
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