Example sentences for: loanword

How can you use “loanword” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Paul Blackford's article [Some English Loanwords in Thai, XXI, 1,5] brought to my mind my favourite chunk of Thai vocabulary and, incidentally, another loanword from English (from Thai for Travellers , DK Arts, Bangkok):

  • ' The pronunciation “for-tay” is an illiteracy, scarcely attributable (as given here and in various dictionaries) to a confusion with the musical direction so pronounced because that is a loanword from Italian: those who know about musical directions are not likely to blunder that badly.

  • Probably an elided mix up of sexy, sex bomb, and sex symbol (/sek/sy/m/ bon/) because l is not a final consonant in Thai and if encountered in a loanword becomes n (or in this case m as bomb is also a loanword).

  • The dropping of goulash communism (1968 citation; economic approach in thencommunist Hungary emphasizing greater production of consumer goods) and gramadan (1970 citation; Hindi loanword applied to a Gandhian form of land collectivization in India), both in the 1963 book but not in TBDNE , reflects the fact that, in a living language, citations require different analysis and judgment after the perspective of time is added.

  • For instance, the British use the word machismo (but pronounce it, almost invariably, as if it were a loanword from Italian, with a - k -where the Spanish has a - tch -).


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