Loan Words in English

Foreign Words: American English, French/Franglais, Irish, Spanish, Singlish, Yiddish 

 Dear Friends 

 Confusing words

The USA

 I had an embarrassing moment in an American supermarket when I asked for a rubber. The assistant said I needed a pharmacy. Americans would use the word eraser. I started collecting words which caused embarrassment and confusion.

I started making a list of words which were different in the English and American dictionary to help my pupils. I keep adding loan words. 

You can find them in an etymological dictionary (one which gives the origins of words, such as most reasonably sized Oxford Dictionaries) or on the Internet.

Foreign Words 

I also started listing French words. Then I expanded my list to other languages. Dialect Words I added dialect words.I took words which we use in English, and words which are common in English-speaking countries.I am trying to get a minimum of five or ten from each language. My results are like this: 

 American color (colour); Diapers (nappies); elevator (lift); eraser (rubber); Fall (autumn); favor (favour); Hood (bonnet); windshield (windscreen); pavement (tarmac, roadway); sidewalk (pavement); truck (lorry); a steal (noun - a bargain).

Aboriginal Australian

boomerang; kangaroo; koala. 

 Australian sheila 

 Arabic zenith ; zero. 

 Aramaic bar (son) Canadian..? 

 French cul-de-sac ; bizarre ; deja-vu; garage 

 Dutch yacht 

 German delicatessen, kindergarten. 

 Greek acropolis (top of hill, usually the building at the top); hippodrome. 

 Irish / Gaelic / Celtic

O (son of). 

 Hebrew

ben (son). 

 Hindi...? / Indian

 (Move to specific category after checking)bungalow ;jodhpur ; polo. 

 Italian 

mama mia ; piano ; tempo ; villa. 

 Japanese 

judo; karaoke. 

 Latin 

caster, chester (fort); sic (thus); veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered, in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare).

 Hawaiian 

hula; ukelele. 

Maori

Kia Ora (hello, good health) 

 Native American 

papoose; squaw; wigwam; Winona (firstborn?) 

 New Zealand barbie; fair dinkum (true); pavlova. 

 Sanskrit.... 

 Scottish 

 bairn (child); bonnie (pretty); dram (drop); mac (son of); wee (small);ye (you). Singlishbungalow (what the English would call a detached house, could be two or more stories.) South African braai(barbecue) 

 Spanish 

sombrero 

 Swahili Safari 

 Urdu khaki 

 Yiddish bagel; chutzpah; nosh......................... Can anybody add more Americanisms? 

Also: Arabic, Canadian, Czech, Portuguese, a Scandinavian language, Bulgarian or Romanian or anything else? If I need to make any changes, let me know. I'm going to keep updating this, with your help.If you can add any words, or sources of such words, please keep sending them to me. Thanks.