Languages develop and change all the time. They are influenced by other languages, or new technologies add new words and phrases. ​These are categorised by linguisticians as "loan words" or "loan translations".

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The missus and I have just enjoyed a week's holiday in the south of France. I'm a keen Francophile yet, because of circumstances, I haven't been to the land of Asterix the Gaul for some 15 years. I am loving it. There are positives and negatives about wherever you go, but the negatives haven't spoilt it at all for me so far. Here's the story.

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