A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages Did you know, for example, that "lingua franca" is Italian for "Frankish language"—a name given to a mixed common language used by diplomats of different nationalities in medieval times? Or that the seemingly modern "bandana" comes f
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