Cheesy Cultural Cliches: Can You Add More?
October 29, 2009 by
Filed under cliche
Whist English contains thousands of loan or borrowed words from languages such as Arabic, Greek, Latin, French and even Sanskrit, our language also uses quite a few proverbs with ethnic or linguistic connotations. English has gone through many periods in which words from a particular language were borrowed.
For example, the Japanese language has loaned a number [...]