SC - LONG! - coronation feasts and purchases

[Ted Eisenstein]

Ted Eisenstein wrote:
>  
> Yeah, except that English takes into itself quite a few
> foreign words and adopts them for its own nefarious purposes.
> At what point does a borrowed foreign word acquire native
> rights?
> 
> (Unlike French, of course, which refuses to acknowledge that
> foreign words can be just as good as its own verbiage. . . )
> 
> ....and we're straying far off the purpose of this list.....

Not at all. Mache-potettose and rostbiff are all food content.
 
Adamantius
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