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Martin Owens :inkscape:
@doctormo@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Do #linguists note the word "Boycott" as an interesting curiosity in how we didn't have a word for this concept, then your man Boycott comes along and the word got sucked into not just English, but also every other language. Almost as if the thing couldn't exist properly without the word first being invented.

Are there other examples of words being invented and being so aggressively adopted into many other languages? "Orange" maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott#Etymology

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