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�Anglo-Foreign Words� Walter Penney of Greenbelt, Md., offered this poser in the August 1969 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Below are five groups of English words. Each group appears also in a foreign language. What are the languages? aloud, angel, hark, inner, lover, room, taken, wig alas, atlas, into, manner, pore, tie, vain, valve ail, ballot, enter, four, lent, lit, mire, taller banjo, chosen, hippo, pure, same, share, tempo, tendon ago, cur, dare, fur, limes, mane, probe, undo Dutch: aloud � very old, angel � sting, hark � rake, inner � collector, lover � foliage, room � cream, taken � jobs, wig � wedge Finnish: alas � down, atlas � satin, into � enthusiasm, manner � mainland, pore � bubble, tie � road, vain � only, valve � awake French: ail � garlic, ballot � bumpkin, enter � to graft, four � oven, lent � slow, lit � bed, mire � gun sight, teller � to send out roots Japanese: banjo � sovereign, chosen � challenge, hippo � style of calligraphy, pure � pulley, same � shark, share � witticism, tempo � supplement, tendon � bowl of rice and fish Latin: ago � I act, cur � why, dare � to give, fur � thief, limes � boundary, mane � early in the morning, probe � thoroughly, undo � wave
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