Language
When a Loanword Starts Doing a Different Job
See how a loanword can narrow, broaden or shift its everyday meaning, and how context reveals the new job it has taken…
routes
Language
Words, phrases and meanings as they travel between languages and communities.
Our point of view
Ideas never travel unchanged
A phrase, picture or practice can acquire a new purpose far from where it began. We look at the route as closely as the arrival.