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Old May 17th, 2013 #12
N.B. Forrest
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Originally Posted by Roy Wagahuski View Post
The better part of half their vocabulary by now consists of loan-words from european languages, like that one.
I don't know if that's a "loan word" or not: it comes from Clavell's novel Shogun, set in the early 1600s. I guess it all depends on how scrupulous he was in his authenticity.
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