The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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One priority is translating loanwords that are being used to communicate public policy or important news events, such as “microcredit” or “voucher” as well as pandemic terms such as “booster shots.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
During World War I, “hamburger steak” became “Salisbury steak,” part of an effort to curb the use of German loanwords, according to H.L.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
There are two types of language mixing: the use of elements from two languages by bilingual speakers; and the injection of loanwords, words from another language used even by people who cannot speak that language.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2021
As for the rest of the vocabulary, about half comes from Italian, with English and French loanwords.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
The following dates for the appearance of loanwords in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle may be of interest.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
