I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but over the last decade the English language has picked up quite a few hitch hikers along the way. If you ask me, these foreigners are welcome companions on the communication highway. Kind of like your iPhone on a long tram ride.
The combination of our wonderfully diverse community and the increasing number of cooking, design and travel programs peppering our TV screens means we get served up a well seasoned diet of international words, idioms and phrases on a daily basis. So it stands to reason we’ve picked up a few tasty tidbits along the way. And, in true Aussie form, we’ve thrown these zesty morsels into our word mix, given it a whisk and spiced up the English language with some international flavour.
I love this about language, I call it Word Soup. It makes the way we communicate so much more interesting. And what’s more, it gives you the ability to create personality and a unique style – something that’s so important when selecting the perfect words to represent your brand.
Here are my top ten adopted words, in no particular order.
- Prima Donna – Italian
- Blitz – German
- Deja vu – French
- Chi – Chinese
- Voodoo – African
- Booze – Dutch
- Guru – Indian
- Harem – Arabic
- Klutz – Yiddish
- Macho – Spanish
Love em.
