By Emeka Umeagbalasi
English Language is like Philosophy, who is an ageless female without menopause. The non-menopausal nature of the two is incontestable. While the oldest child of Philosophy is Science, which begat a twin: natural and social sciences with many more generations founded by them, starting from 18th and 19th centuries; Philosophy is still pregnant with the ante-natal/pre-natal result of "Logic", "Metaphysics", "Epistemology" and "Ethics" as her embryos. The Mother-English Language is even more ambitious. She has not only given birth to thousands of words and lost thousands as well over the years; but also adopted or "stolen" over fifty thousand "foreign sons and daughters" (words) in several decades..........
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