An interesting exploration by BBC News Magazine about the passage of words between English and other languages: Does English still borrow words from other languages?
Tag: language
Aug 29
Oldest English words
Researchers have recently released interesting analysis of our language, using historical documents to trace the usages of words and relationships between languages. This BBC article reports a handful of words that are among the oldest (I, we, two, and three, but not four), and which words the research predicts may soon fall from use (dirty, …