It’s odd that such a basic language construct would be the same across Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, French, Russian, Indonesian, German, Maldivian, Malay, Urdu, Punjabi, and Filipino and others.
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Well, it’s not like those other languages just happened to come up with the same word. It’s an English word that just got popular enough to be used by speakers of many other languages. Linguists call this a loanword. We use lots of these in English. Pasta, cafe, kindergarten… These are all loanwords (from Italian, French, and German respectively).
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