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Favouring French loanwords

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Paul Bruthiaux
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Abstract

‘French continues to outclass the competition among English-speaking consumers of loanwords’

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English Today , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 39 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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