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The English Word That Baffles Tourists

One word that means so many things — shit

C S Bhambra
2 min readJan 31, 2021

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English is known as the ‘bastard language’, taking words from other languages, originally latin based where the romantic languages derived from. You can find words like déjà vu, genre, café (French- there are around 7000 words), uber, poltergeist (German- 76+), macho, patio…

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C S Bhambra

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