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unusual facts about Foreign Words


Foreign Words

It is around this time that Nicolaides ends up arranging a trip to Bangui, the capital of the CAR.



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Azerbaijani language

If written in the Latin alphabet, all foreign words are transliterated, for example, "Bush" becomes "Buş", and "Schröder" becomes "Şröder".

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

Foreign words are transliterated according to pronunciation, for which Arab students at the University of Münster were consulted.

Nathan ben Jehiel

Early in the seventeenth century Menahem Lonzano issued his small but useful supplement, Ma'arik, concerned particularly with foreign words (in Shete Yadot, Venice, 1618; newly edited by Jellinek, Leipzig, 1853).

The Bilestoad

The odd spelling reflects Goodman's idea of a future language similar to A Clockwork Orange's Nadsat in which English has been modified by the borrowing of foreign words.