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J4mes_bond25 Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Language - what's the name ???
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| 01 b 00 02 b 02 br 02 td | 01 td 00 Is there a name for foreign words that make their way into common usage in the English language? 02 br 02 br 00 The word sesquipedalian means a word with many syllables - and the word itself is a sesquipedalian. Is there a name for this phenomenon? 02 td | 02 tr
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0 The phenomenon should be called sesquipedalia, of course, or self-referencing lexical items. 0-
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