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Yes, but English often drops diacritics when borrowing words from other languages. So "café" became "cafe". The English rules around anglicization of imported w
by mtviewdave 11y ago
Yes, but English often drops diacritics when borrowing words from other languages. So "café" became "cafe". The English rules around anglicization of imported words makes fidelity to the originating language's spelling/pronunciation optional.
Sometimes this has led to the same word being imported more than once. English imported "hostel" from French, and then after "hostel" become "hôtel", English imported it again as "hotel".
- schoen 11y agoThis is generally true, but I found one counterexample in borrowing from German: loess, in geology, from German Löss. Maybe this was a particularly educated borrowing or one initiated by a fluent German speaker, or maybe it would have been especially confusing to call the material "loss"?