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Are there specific point-able reasons for why English, perhaps maybe American English seems to be a language especially stuffed to the brim with loan words? That is, why does a modern English sentence have a high chance of containing words that trace back to 10 different parts of the world?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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