sexist language

[Steven Ryan]

>As for  foreign words, English speakers like   to  boast  that the
>English  language contains a  great many of them, but  in reality,
>I've always been non-plussed by this claim.  I don't find that the
>average American  newspaper   uses that   many foreign  words  and
>phrases, and  anyway very  few   of them are  very  common  words.

The foreign words are predominately borrowings from Old French from after 1066.
Words like: foreign, language, contains, reality, non-plussed, (?) claim,
average, uses, phrases, common, predominately, borrowings.

They also include borrowings directly from Latin (the missionaries), like
biscop; and from north german, like skirt, or skiff.

Are these foreign words? They are certainly not `native' german.
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Then Guthrun crossed the wasted lands
and combed her hair with sooty hands.
Alone she watched the oceans churning,
and sang of heroes, fame most yearning.