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Subject: re:Polish isn't an English word
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 10:30:46 EDT
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Polish is indeed an English word.  It may have stemmed from a
foriegn language, but then so have many other of our words.
In fact all of them if you consider that English is a
conglomeration of Briton and Anglo-Saxon (tempered by Latin),
topped off with a good dose of Norman French.  I believe the
Polish call themselves something like Polski(or maybe that's the
way they pronounce Poland (or maybe it's both)) in their native
language.

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				Tom Harris