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| | First Day of Combat World War II |
 | | Just a tiny sampling: cougar from Nahuatl (Aztec), hurricane (Carib), barbecue (Taino), piranha (Tupi), buffalo (Latin, through Portuguese), khaki (Urdu), ketchup (Chinese), camphor (Sanskrit), Bwana (Swahili), spaghetti (Italian), fiancee (French), lasso (Spanish), syrup (Arabic), wiener (German), amok (Malayan), yacht (Dutch), banana (Wolof), sabbath (Hebrew), typhoon (Cantonese). |
 | | (pas, pronounced "Pa" = not) Je ne sais, Ma. |
 | | English has by far the largest lexicon of any tongue, around 450,000 entries in unabridged dictionaries and adding new ones all the time. |
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