When an Arizona weatherman used the Arabic word haboob to describe a Phoenix area dust storm, one outraged listener railed: “I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. About 80% of the words used in English are borrowed from ...