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How India changed the English language
June 22, 2015
They are in there, often unnoticed. The words that have become part of everyday English. Loot, nirvana, pyjamas, shampoo and shawl; bungalow, jungle, pundit and thug. What are the roots, and routes, of these Indian words? How and when did they travel and what do their journeys into British vernacular -- and then the Oxford English Dictionary -- tell us about the relationship between Britain and India?
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