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Network 9/19/2003, Vol. 50 Issue 4  My Kingdom for a Word!  By
Simon Winchester  There are far too many words newly introduced
in the Renaissance to be listed here, but sometimes the
loveliness of the assemblages are just too beguiling to pass up.
So it is pleasing to note that during the 200 years after
William Caxton set up a printing press, English welcomed from
abroad such words as anonymous, atmosphere, catastrophe,
criterion, delirium, enthusiasm, fact, idiosyncrasy, inclemency,
lunar, malignant, necessitate, parasite, pneumonia, sculptor,
skeleton, soda, vicinity, and virus (all from either Latin or
Greek); battery, bayonet, chocolate, confront, docility,
grotesque, mustache, passport, tomato, and volunteer (from or
through the good offices of the French); balcony, cupola, ditto,
granite, grotto, macaroni, piazza, sonata, sonnet, stanza, and
violin (from Italian); anchovy, armad