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International words

Places:

apartment, bank, bar, cafe, cinema, clinic, centre (shopping centre, medical centre, sports centre), disco, hotel, laboratory, museum, office, park, parking, restaurant, stadium, supermarket, terminal, theatre, university, 

Music, Arts, entertainment

ballet, blues, cassette, CD, cinema, concert, dance, jazz, opera, pop, piano, saxophone, symphony, theatre

Technical-Science:

allergy, aluminium, antibiotic, bacteria, CD, centimeter, crystal, dinosaur, ecology, electric, electronic, geography, gram, granite, helicopter, hydrogen, industry, internet, kilometer, litre, mathematics, metal, meter, microscope, millimeter, oxygen, photo, physics, plutonium, radio, SMS, technical service telephone, telescope, television (TV), uranium, video, virus, vitamin

People:

academic, diplomat, director, doctor, musician,  professor, scientist, secretary, specialist, tourist, 

Studying:

class, conference, congress, diploma, dissertation, geography, institute, mathematics, photocopy, physics, professor, program, semester, seminar, symposium, university,

Sport:

basketball, box, fitness, football, marathon, olympics, stadyum, tennis,

Food-drink:

cake, caramel, chocolate, coffee, menu, pizza, spaghetti, vanilla, yogurt, 

Adjectives:

automatic, graphic, industrial, nacotic, nuclear, professional

and others:

administration, aggressive, alternative,  analyse, antique, atlas, bomb, business, cargo, catalogue, class, comedy, concept, contract, copy, cosmetics, course, credit, dialogue, elite, festival,  guarantee, information, jeans, maximum, message, method, minimum, monologue, normal, organisation, passive, personnel, photocopy, plan, problem, reservation, romantic, scandal, service, sex, souvenir, standard, textile, Tshirt, tragedy, uniform

Be careful of 'False Friends', words that look the same but have different meanings.  These are sometimes called 'false friends'.  Some examples are: 'Library' in English is a place where you can borrow a book; in French 'librairie' is a place where you can buy a book.  'Cheminee' in French is the fireplace (inside the house, where the wood burns) and the chimney (on top of the roof) in English.  In Turkish, 'şömine' (pronouced just like the French 'cheminee) is only used for the place where the wood burns in the house, because another word exists for the part where the smoke comes out of the roof.   

As words travel across cultures and countries, they are borrowed differently.  Many words of French origin have kept their spelling in English (as they were used in written language for formal communication with a French speaking king, William the Conqueror 1066), but European words that came into Turkish during Ottoman times were written in Arabic letters, so keeping the pronounciation not the spelling (e.g. kokteyl = cocktail).

 

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 November 2008 )
 
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