Borrowed Words
        Do you often use shampoo or put ketchup on your food? Have you ever visited a sauna? If you think these words are originally English, you'd better think again. In fact, each of these words comes from a different language! Shampoo, for example, is actually a word from the Hindi language in India. This word originally meant“massage.” In hair shops in India, barbers massage your head while washing your hair.
       Over time, British people in India used this word to mean a liquid that cleans hair.Almost everyone knows what ketchup is. People all over the world like to pour this tomato sauce on French
fries or sandwiches. This word is originally Chinese (from a fish sauce). In the 1600s, British and Dutch
sailors brought this fish sauce to Europe. Over time, people changed the sauce by adding tomato flavor to it,but the name basically stayed the same.Sauna, a popular type of public steam room and shower facility, comes from the Finnish language. Duringone of the European Olympics, athletes from Britain and Germany saw Finnish athletes use saunas aftertraining. Later, the general public all over Europe started using this style of bathing, too. Now, we still use this word to describe all kinds of steam rooms.
       English is full of many wonderful borrowed words from many languages. Perhaps English should change its name to Eng-hin-chi-fin-fre-ger-ital-span-ish!

actually 實際上 Hindi 北印度的 massage 按摩 liquid 液體 steam 蒸氣 barber 理髮師 pour 倒
sauce 醬汁 Dutch 荷蘭的 facility 設施 Finnish 芬蘭的 athlete 運動員 Germany 德國 describe 描寫

【題組】44. What is the main idea of this reading?
(A) English words in other languages
(B) Words from India
(C) Usage of words from other languages in English
(D) The most popular borrowed words