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“Could you lend me the words?” -- How Words Are Borrowed and Adjusted in Mandarin Intro. to Linguistics, Spring 2003 Ms. Yuan, Yun-Pi Jackey Ho, Justin Huang, Michael Wang, and Rex Jiang 2003/5/13 In the process of doing research, we found that there are many terms not originated from Mandarin but we actually use those terms every day. It is indeed an interesting phenomenon for us to observe. For example, if we do not know what ‘bus’ means, then we will not know why a big car which can carry passengers is called ‘巴士’. Meanwhile, we will not know why ‘sofa’ is