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This document summarizes an investigation into words in English that have different meanings than their cognates in other European languages, despite originating from Latin. The investigation looked at words such as "actually", "eventually", "etiquette", "fabric", "billion", "chef", "preservative", "sensible", and "biscuit" in the Oxford English Dictionary compared to German, Spanish, and Croatian. It was found that the meanings have remained largely the same in those languages, while English shows a depart

Author

Anita Jankovic

Language

EN