In <[email protected]>,
on 11/20/2012
at 04:20 PM, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> said:
>And another thing which is curious, given how close English and
>German are from the time they began to break apart, there are very
>few loan words in English from German.
There are some German words that came into the US via Yiddish. The
most obvious could be translated as ornament.
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