"Foreign" Words, Three

       Turning from food and in other linguistic directions, if you buy a "bandanna," you are indebted to Indian people and the Hindi language; if you carry that bandanna in a "tote" bag, you are indebted to African Bantu people; and if you "schlep" the tote bag around all day, you are indebted to Jews from central Europe.

       We've imported the foods and the goods and the words and a lot of time the peoples that go with the foods and the goods and the words; so why shouldn't they all be part of our language?  We are the nation of immigrants, quite literally.  America created the word in 1789.  (The Story of English, p. 263.)