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Lesson 3 Stories of English Words and Expressions

English Words of Foreign Origin

English has often borrowed ____ from other cultures or languages.

Here are some examples with ____ stories.




shampoo

The word ____ comes from the Hindi word chāmpo, which means “to press.”

In ____, the word was used for a head massage.

____ traders in India experienced a bath with a head massage and introduced it to Britain in the 18th century.

The meaning of the word shampoo changed a few times after it first entered English around ____.

In the 19th century, shampoo got its present meaning of “____ the hair.”

Shortly after that, the word began to be ____ used for a special soap for the hair.




robot

The word robot comes from the ____ R.U.R., which was written in 1920 by a Czech writer Karel Čapek.

In the ____, robots are machines that look like humans.

They are designed to work for ____ and are produced in a factory.

It is interesting that the idea of ____ the word robot didn’t come from Karel Čapek himself.

He originally called the ____ in his play labori from the Latin word for “work.”

However, his brother suggested ____, which means “slave workers” in Czech.

Karel Čapek liked the idea and decided to use the word ____.

In 1938, the ____ was made into a science fiction show on television in Britain.



hurricane

The word hurricane comes from the Spanish word huracán, which originates from the name of a ____ god.

In the Mayan creation ____, Huracán is the weather god of wind, storm, and fire, and he is one of the three gods who created humans.

However, the first humans angered the gods, so ____ caused a great flood.

The first Spanish contact with the Mayan ____ was in 1517.

Spanish explorers who were passing ____ the Caribbean experienced a hurricane and picked up the word for it from the people in the area.

In English, one of the early ____ of hurricane was in a play by Shakespeare in 1608.




hamburger

The word hamburger originally comes from Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest ____.

Hamburger means “people or things from ____” in German.

The origin of the first hamburger is not ____.

However, it is believed that the hamburger was invented in a small ____ in Texas, USA, sometime between 1885 and 1904.

A cook placed a Hamburg-style steak between ____ slices of bread, and people started to call such food a hamburger.



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