[…] Macmillan Dictionary blog, Liz Potter told the stories behind the words unfriend and keirin, Japanese for “racing wheels”; and Stan Carey took a bite out of the idiom, have your cake and […]
it’s great how English borrows words from far flung languages like Japanese. There are also Arabic words like alcohol and alkali
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[…] Macmillan Dictionary blog, Liz Potter told the stories behind the words unfriend and keirin, Japanese for “racing wheels”; and Stan Carey took a bite out of the idiom, have your cake and […]
it’s great how English borrows words from far flung languages like Japanese. There are also Arabic words like alcohol and alkali