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At some point in the distant past, I had a discussion wherein someone claimed that there weren’t any words in English derived from Japanese. (Aside from the obvious food and business related direct imports. Sushi may be comprehensible to most Americans, but it’s not ‘derived’ in the way that say, pulling from my Word-of-the-Day emails, “intransigent” is.
Intransigent is from French intransigeant, from Spanish
intransigente, from in-, “not” (from Latin) + transigente,
present participle of transigir, “to compromise,” from Latin
transigere, “to come to an agreement,” from trans-, “across” +
agere, “to drive.”<\/font>)<\/p>\n

Now, I will admit, it’s unlikely that there are words in English that have evolved from Japanese over thousands of years like we have from Latin. But words that have become English, yes, we have those. For a long time, the only word I could ever think of was skosh<\/a>. But today I realized another one. honcho<\/a>. w00t! Now I have 2 words to trot out!<\/p>\n

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