English is queer !!

I can declare this with a lot of conviction and finality : English is a queer, bizarre language. It is ever-growing, adding new words to the dictionary every year, unlike most other major languages, infact i think with respect to absorbing words from other language and the phenomenal word-count increase, English is unique. There are English words of Tamil, Hindi, Italian, Urdu and Persian origin, leaving the ones of purely British origin. Here are some examples i found to this effect :: some of them will be so simply revealing their origin that you will wonder how you did not spot them before ..

1. mulligatawny - a kind of seasoned soup, has it's origin in the Tamil milagu-tannir, meaning pepper-water.
2. dinghy - a small boat used for emergency escape, origin from the hindi dingi.
3. tom-tom - tall jazz drum, from the Tamil tamtam.
4. buck - Boastful talk, to talk too much and egoistically. From Hindi buk-buk, 'to prattle'.
5. blighty - British army slang for home, after foreign service. From hindi bilayati, foreign.
6. chintz - Printed cotton fabric, usually with particoloured pattern and glazed. From sanskrit citra meaning spotted or variegated.
7. pug - Footprint. From hindi pag, foot. Used to denote the footmarks of an animal like a tiger.
8. jodhpurs - long breeches for riding. From Jodhpur, famous for its horsemen.
9. chop - Stamp. A seal-impression, or brand. From Hindi chhap, stamp. Also denotes class.

A lot more adaptations existy