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12/28/2010-- As the current lingua franca of
international business, science and technology, with a vocabulary of
over one million words, English has always contained words from other
languages, including languages such as Latin, German, French, Italian,
and Chinese.
Over 1,000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.
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Over 1,000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.
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