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The English language is different from any36language. Yet English words do not37the same. It is always38 . People need new words39new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use or older words are used 40a new way.
English can 41by borrowing words from other languages. The word “tomato” was borrowed from Mexico, the word “coffee” came from Turkey, and “tea” from42and so on. Now new space and science words43from other countries, too. New words are also made by adding two words44 . The words “strawberry”, “postman” and “blackboard” are made up of two parts.
Sometimes, new words are45forms of old words. The word “photo” was made from “photograph” by cutting off the46of the long word. The word “plane” was made by cutting off the47part of “airplane”.48“smog” was made by using only the first two letters of “smoke” and cutting off the front part of “fog”. And products can become new words. Our “sandwich” was named after49named Sandwich, and “jelly(果冻)” was a name made up by the company that 50made this product.
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