Chinese loanwords in the OED
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2008
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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It was traditionally assumed that Chinese had contributed few borrowings into English until Cannon
(1987, 1988, 1990) carried out his research based on different English desk-dictionaries. His studies
were supplemented by Moody (1996) who reviewed Cannon’s list focusing on the information
provided by the Oxford English dictionary (henceforth OED) and Webster’s third new international
dictionary of the English language. Nonetheless, Moody’s analysis did not explore all the possibilities
the OED offered at the time. This articles aims at revising those previous pieces of work on the
topic to find out whether there are significant changes in view of the latest data supplied by the
OED, to determine whether there is an increase in the number of items borrowed, which are the
transmission and source languages and to see whether any predictions for the near future can be
made. Finally, some comments on the transliteration of the terms are also included.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 253-274