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A-Z of English words with surprising origins

In this Telegraph.co.uk slideshow, Henry Hitchings, author of The Secret Life of Words (which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Book Prize this week) presents an A-to-Z of his favourite words that have been absorbed into English from other languages.

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Posted by Jeffrey Hill on November 27, 2008 at 05:17 PM in Books, English Language, Slideshow, Vocabulary |

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