Paddle up to the souq in my umiaq looking to buy some yaqona for a handful of qindar

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    Not a single one of those examples is an English-language word. They are all loanwords, with the exception of two proper nouns and an example of archaic spelling which hasn’t been used in centuries.

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      When does a loanword become native? Single, example, language, exception, proper, use, and century are all words that came from French.

      Not a lone one of those forebisens is an English-tongue word. They are all loanwords, with the outlier of two ownnames and a forebisen of oldspelling which hasn’t been noted in yearhundreds.