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Interpret linguistic phenomena in the quotations
1. Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right pur­pose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy (Aristotle). 2. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend (William Blake). 3. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle (Albert Einstein). 4. Truth is stranger than fiction (Lord Byron). 5. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves (Victor Hugo). 6. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire (Sir Winston Churchill). 7. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody (Bill Cosby). 8. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every dif­ficulty (Sir Winston Churchill). 9. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk (Oscar Wilde). 10. I have made this (letter) longer, because I have not had the time to make it longer (Blaise Pascal).
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ETYMOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds,
their etymology being buried, bike so many of the earth's marvels,
beneath the. dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
The bridge between "humid' and "humor" is magic.
According to the. OED they are of the Latin origin:
moist, moisture, wet, damp.
The correct Latin spelling is umor, umere, umidus.
The spelling with the initial h is a result of folk (false) etymology,
which once associated these words with Latin humus, "earth".
Roy Peter Clark
Discussion

1. 
   Words of native origin (Indo-European, Germanic words). Their semantic and structural properties. Their derivational potential.
   
2. 
   Borrowings in English. Causes of borrowing words from other languages. Types of borrowings.
   
3. 
   Etymological doublets/triplets. Folk etymology.
   
4. 
   The ways and degrees of assimilation of loan words in English.
   
5. 
   International words. Translator’s false friends.
   

Terminology
Borrowing is resorting to the word-stock of other languages for words to express new concepts, to further differentiate the existing concepts and to name new objects, phenomena, etc.