OFF: English (was Mountain Grill)
Doug Pearson
jasret at MINDSPRING.COM
Mon Feb 28 14:38:29 EST 2005
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:07:58 +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
wrote:
>Still, as languages go, English has been extremely flexible in absorbing
>vocabulary from just about anything it can find :)
With the most recent large-scale absorbtion probably being from Hindu
during the 18th/19th-century occupation of India (thug, pundit, etc.)?
-Doug
jasret at mindspring.com
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