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effect on Romance languages

  • Romance languages

    In Romance languages: Vocabulary variations

    …recent times, the influx of Anglicisms has become a flood, resisted to the death by some purists. Many of these, however, are ephemeral or specialized, and none affects the basic vocabulary in which Latin-inherited words continue to predominate.

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