>...and also "or where the imported words have lost the connection to the original". In these two cases, the original is Italian, just like "Volkswagon - Volkswagen" is from German.

Oh, FYI (but you probably already know) the flower "dandelion" comes from the French "Dents de Lion" (or lion's teeth) probably cos it looks like a mouthful of yellow fangs. As dandelion is a diuretic, in my home town it's called a "pee-the-bed". However, the French also colloquially call it "pis-en-lit"

>>Just FYI:
>>Seems words ending in "borough" in English end up a "boro" in US, e.g. Marlborough - Marlboro, and in English are pronounced "booruh" - "oo" as in "wood", that is. In true English phonetic fashion, Edinburgh is pronounced
>>"Edinbooruh"
>
>From what I hear, "borough" (pronounced as "borrow") is a municipal unit within a larger city (i.e. NYC has five boroughs), and the names of the cities usually end in -boro. Go figure.

That's right. But in England: Middlesborough, Crowborough.