Why so little Chinese in English?

 Most Chinese words now part of English show, in their spelling and meaning, to have been borrowed a long time ago, often from non-Mandarin Chinese varieties like Cantonese.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/06/language-borrowing?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1

 

 

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