Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 17:07 |
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FFlores wrote:
> I never imagined that "lunch" was Spanish! When was it
> borrowed? Today "slice" is _lonja_, though that's a rare
> word, at least in my dialect
Perhaps it was _lonja_ when it entered English, I was going from memory,
so I might've gotten the word a little wrong.
> In any case, _lunch_ has been reborrowed
> into Spanish by certain people (mainly executives).
Interesting.
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