How languages steal words from each other
This is the only pirate reference you’re getting from me. •
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen’s podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/684727483493384192/episode-68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get •
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Audio mix by Graham Haerther and Manuel Simon at Standard Studios: https://haerther.net
REFERENCES:
[etymologies from OED and M-W]
Sanchez, T. (2005). Constraints on structural borrowing in a multilingual contact situation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. ScholarlyCommons.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ircs_reports
John Hewson. 1993. A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian. Gatineau – Quebec : National Museums of Canada. https://protoalgonquian.atlas-ling.ca/
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