English
- bar (the beverage establishment)
- basquete = basketball
- bit, byte, and many other computing terms
- champu or xampu = shampoo
- cheque = Cheque(US English check)
- choque = shock
- clicar = to click
- clique = click
- clube = club
- coquetel = cocktail
- cowboy
- deletar = to delete
- estandarte = standard
- faroeste = far west, Western,
- fashion = adj., fashionable
- futebol = football
- hamburguer = cheeseburger, hot dog, hamburger, fast food
- interface = interface
- mesmerizar = mesmerize
- mouse = computer mouse
- náilon = nylon
- revolver = revolver
- sanduíche = sandwich
- show = adj., something with showlike qualities, spectacular
- telemarketing, know-how
- teste = test
- turista = tourist
- vagão = wagon
- volei = volleyball
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“The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.”
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“The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, “All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.” And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)