in-between breaks

Guess I'll share some interesting stuff from my linguistics textbook here.

"Only 15% of the words in English vocabulary today are truly English (or Anglo-Saxon) words. Majority are borrowed and are of foreign origin."

Here's a list from the text:

acronym  (Greek)

amok  (Malay)

area  (Latin)

barbecue  (Spanish)

bazaar  (Persian)

bonanza  (Spanish)

bungalow  (Hindi)

candy  (Arabic)

chlorine  (Greek)

cruise  (Dutch)

data  (Latin)

garage  (French)

ketchup  (Hokkien)

minister  (French)

noodle  (German)

pagoda  (Portugese)

pajamas  (Persian)

pizza  (Italian)

rattan  (Malay)

shampoo  (Hindi)

ski  (Norwegian)

studio  (Italian)

swastika  (Sanskrit)

turban  (Turkish/Persian)

whiskey  (Scots Gaelic)

Ketchup. Hokkien? wtf. Bet you were not expecting that either!