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You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu

An A-to-Z Guide to English Words from Around the World

From one of America's top wordsmiths, a lively survey of words from abroad that make English a truly international language. With dry wit and remarkable erudition, Eugene Ehrlich's You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu takes us on an eye-opening tour of our ever-changing language, showing us how English has, throughout its history, seamlessly sewn words from other languages into its original fabric. The language we call our own has in fact been culled from the languages of ancient invaders, such as the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, and the French. Ehrlich's comprehensive research and vast lingual experience bring to light the origins of some of our most popular and well-used words. For example, graffiti is shown to come from the Italian word meaning "scratches." The word for one of our favorite French pastries, éclair, means "lightning flash." And ketchup comes from the Chinese Ke-Jap, which means "fish sauce." Ehrlich illuminates the origins, purposes, and meanings of once-foreign words that have become part of the rich texture of our language.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ehrlich, EugeneH. You've got
ketchup onyour muumuu: an A-to-Z guide to English words from around the world
/ Eugene Ehrlich.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8050-6163-0 1. English language—
Foreign words and phrases Dictionaries. 2. Language and languages—
Influence on English Dictionaries. I.Title. PE1670.E372000 422'.4'03—dc21 99-
39458 CIP First Edition 2000 eISBN 9781466863194 First eBook edition:
December 2013.