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Of course, not all these borrowings are free of charge.
Malay by government design and Japanese by casual osmosis are already indelibly marked by borrowings (including what English took in earlier times from French, Latin, and Greek).
Some borrowings completely mystify the non-Hebrew speaker.
Along with these outright borrowings came hybrids composed of an English root and a French suffix, such as clonage for `cloning,' scorer for `to score,' nurserie for `nursery' (`fish-breeding plant'), and supporteur/supportrice for `supporter.
As one looks elsewhere in the U.S., the preponderance of British borrowings diminishes, and the purely American inventions increase in proportion, as do Indian, Spanish, and French-based names.