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Cheesy Cultural Cliches: Can You Add More?

October 29, 2009 by  
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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 [...]

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