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Trade Routes & Borrowed Words: How Global Commerce Shaped English
Episode 113
Published 1 week, 1 day ago
Description
This episode traces how merchants, sailors, and scholars from the Persian Gulf to Italy to Southeast Asia slipped loanwords into English—spices, algebra, coffee, silk—and how those terms helped cement English as a lingua franca of trade, science, and culture.
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