The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“We can’t rework loanwords as soon as they appear — we have to observe for a bit until it’s clear that it’s being used widely, after which we can step in,” Kim said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
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
Brate says the majority of loanwords probably came in in the beginning of the 10th Cen75tury.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
