Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

>From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
[quote of unknown origin:]
> >The only Malay word I can think of in English:  (run) amuck;
> >ketchup/catsup
> >is via Ml. but originally Chinese.  British Engl. may have a few more.
There's also orangutan, which is too often mispronounced "orangutang".  I
used to know a few other M-I loanwords, were it not for this damn amnesia...

>The only Tagalog word to make it into American English is "bundok", which
>means mountain in the form of "boondocks" (which means places out of the
>way, like very secluded rural areas)
Yeah, a military word.  I forgot what words we [Americans] got from Korean,
Vietnamese (and I'm sure Khmer as well), as a result of two wars.  Anybody?

DaW.
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