foreign words and phrases
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foreign words and phrases
1. Fowler (1926), in an article entitled ‘foreign danger’, warned that ‘those who use words or phrases belonging to languages with which they have little or no acquaintance do so at their peril’. He was thinking primarily of so-called ‘non-naturalized’ expressions that are customarily put in italics in printed matter so as to alert the reader to the presence of something unusual. Some of these expressions tend to retain the grammatical behaviour of the languages from which they were borrowed, notably in the formations of plural forms, so that the plural of
curriculum vitae (see
curriculum), for example, can cause some initial difficulty (it has to be
curricula vitae, unless one resorts to
CVs). Further difficulty is caused by uncertainty as to whether a word is naturalized or not;
referendum has the plural form
referenda if it is not naturalized and
referendums if it is (and for those in doubt about this one, naturalized forms ultimately, and rightly, prevail). Problems also occur when the meaning in English changes from that in the source language, or when mistaken meanings are applied, as with
cui bono?.
Modern English usage.
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