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It is also through this and earlier editions of the DOSAE that one learned, to one's surprise, of the South African provenance of words like off-load unload, bottle store liquor store, butchery butcher's shop, and bond mortagage bond.
This is not a problem peculiar to DOSAE ; rather, it is one of the strongest challenges facing lexicographers of a vast number of languages in the twenty-first century, as English continues to spread, influence, and be influenced by languages all over the world in situations of intimate language contact.
There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.
According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.
Yet, the citations they give afford a clue to the real status of this and numerous other items in DOSAE : This wall chart, attractive ... and tweetalig nogal [bilingual, what's more], is to be distributed to all hospitals.... and Four years in the charge office as a fraud detective.