"Foreign" Words, Six

["Minneapolis" owes its identity to two diverse languages:  minne "waters" (American Indian) and polis "city" (Greek.]

       If you wish to complain about Indian and Greek in the same word or any other "invasion" of "our" language, all I can say is, what would you want to get rid of?  Where would you start?  And perhaps above all, how would you have the chutzpah?

      
       I am indebted for ideas for the "foreign" words selected in the body of the essay to The Story of English by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil; Elizabeth Sifton Books, Viking, 1986.