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--- Quote from: andyf on February 15, 2013, 07:23:45 PM --- It's interesting how much feedback there has been into English from other completely unrelated languages. Much is obvious, like "bungalow" (a one storey house) from one of the Indian languages, but some of it has taken a more convoluted route, like "compound" in the sense of "the diplomatic compound". That came from a Dutch word which in turn came from the Malaysian "kampung", meaning village. Andy. --- End quote --- Actually, the term 'bungalow' was invented by an old builder called Paddy McShoestring. He ran out of money on a 2-storey development and decided to 'bung a low roof on'. |
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