Borrowings of Words
1.Borrowed from French – Late Latin, Greek:
a)For example, since 1950 the richest fifth of humanity has doubled its consumption of energy, meat, timber, steel and copper per person and quadrupled its car ownership. (http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=199§ion=2, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/energy)
b)In Asia, the estimated number of people living with HIV in Viet Nam has more than doubled between 2000 and 2005 and Indonesia has the fastest growing epidemic. (http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=3147, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epidemic ).
2.Borrowed from Latin:
a)The reason lies in the combined impact of many factors. (http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=341§ion=3, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/impact)
b)A more plausible explanation of Russia's propaganda offensive and increase in the numbers of both regular and irregular forces in Abkhazia is not fear of a Georgian attack. (http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=1137609, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/propaganda ).…
