A Dictionary of European Anglicisms: A Usage Dictionary of Anglicisms in Sixteen European Languages Available to Purchase

Discussion of English language reference books of any kind frequently refers to loan words in English – the richness added to our vocabulary by words taken from foreign languages across the world; indeed, there are dictionaries enough just of such loan words, whether generally or related to specific languages or regions.

But what of the reverse? What has the English language given the world in vocabulary? The cynics will jump on “hooligan”: despite an historical note explaining its former currency in Czarist and Communist Russia as a general term for criminals and dissenters (I would like to think the two...