Re: phonology of borrowed words

Danny Wier scripsit:

> I wonder what cases there have been of English borrowing a word and altering
> it, then the language English borrowed from re-borrowing the Anglicized
> word?
"Beefsteak" comes to mind; its roots are obviously French, but it was
reborrowed as "bifteck".  I think that "jury" has also gone this route.

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