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For example, serviette, scone, sheila, sister, Smarties, spanner, spot on, squash, starkers , just to pick a handful, are Briticisms; although the author makes that clear, it seems odd that the words and expressions that are direct borrowings from British English are not individually identified as such.
While publishers accept sequential borrowings a single copy of a book from a library, they can't very well provide free universal access to everything in their catalogs.
Of course, not all these borrowings are free of charge.
Borrowings from other languages frequently undergo sea changes, but when they are complicated by the tendency of colloquial Hebrew to abbreviate, the results are frequently weird and wonderful.
In Melbourne, the Victorian languages, Wuywurung (spoken in three dialects on the site of Melbourne and to the north and west) and Wathawurung (spoken on the western side of Port Phillip Bay) were the first source of borrowings, though the surviving words number no more than sixteen.
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