Loan Words.  I’m so used to news media having uninformed pieces
on language that it’s a pleasure to find exceptions; BBC News
had a magazine story on loan words by Philip Durkin, who — being
deputy chief editor of the OED — is definitely up to the task,
with interesting tidbits like this:   I found the odd-looking
quinzhee in the OED and discovered it’s pronounced /ˈkwɪnzi/
(QUIN-zee, just like the traditional pronunciation of Quincy)
and is from “Slave kǫ́ézhii, lit. ‘in the shelter’, or < a
similar form in another Athabaskan language." And they ran a
followup piece in which Durkin “looks at readers’ own favourite
examples”; there are lots more goodies there. A sample
paragraph:  It is often useful to distinguish between immediate
and remoter origins of words. For instance, among the French
borrowings into English in the original article, peace comes
from an earlier form of French paix which goes right back to the
Latin origins of the French language (the Romans spoke about
pax), but war comes from a norther