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806. PERSEVERANCE, POSITIVITY & PRACTICE with Santiago Ruiz de Velasco from Oxford University Press

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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Do We Say Chaotic or Quixotic?

There was one thing at the OUP recently you've been talking about gift words, right? Which are words that English has sort of been given by other languages and so on. Can you give us just like a couple of, let's say, gift words, words in English that have come from another language that you can just think of at the top of your hair? So for instance, I think one is a very specific one. And one, Kisotik, that's a very kind of, I mean, I love that because it comes from our sex period - Terebante who did Quixote.

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