Not Trivial

Ep4: What surprising language has English borrowed almost 1000 words from?


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We’ve all heard of how there’s lots of English words that come from other languages, like Spanish or French. And some of us can list them: mosquito, royal, mansion, tornado. But did you know that there are around 900+ words we use in English that stem from Arabic? Some of them are extremely common! And they don’t all start with “al”!


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Not TrivialBy Liz Zirk