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The status of English lexis in the Polish language 171
5. An analysis of the questionnaire
In order to answer the question concerning the distinction between borrowing/
loan/loanword and foreign word/foreignism, we have distributed a questionnaire
among 34 students of the second year of licentiate studies and the first
year of master students of the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian
University (April 2011). The questionnaire consisted of 160 lexical items beginning
in arbitrarily chosen letters D and J excerpted from the mentioned dictionary
of the English borrowings in the Polish language (Słownik zapożyczeń
angielskich w polszczyźnie 2010). It goes without saying that the number of
lexical items as well as the number of subjects were low but it is believed that
the research shows the tendency in distinguishing the terms in question very
well. It is worth stressing that the subjects were students of English philology,
which means that they knew English well and had some linguistic awareness.
The students were asked in Polish to identify foreign (i.e., unadapted) words of
English origin. 3 The results are represented in Table 1:
Table 1. Identifying the origin of words in the questionnaires of students
dakron or dacron 25 drajwer or driver 11
daltonizm dread or dred 10
damping or dumping 21 dreadnought or drednot 30
dance 19 dren 4
dancing 5 drenaż 2
dandys 8 drenować 1
dandyzm 7 dres 1
dansing or dancing 2 dressing 15
dark room 24
dresy or dres
dart 14 drink 1
darwinizm drink-bar 2
D-day 25
drops
deadline 12 dropszot 24
deal 18 drugstore 32
dealer 2 drybler 12
debel 10 drybling 5
debeściak dryblować 5
debugger 25 dryf 6
debugować 12 dryft 6
deck 21 dryfter 11
default 29 DTP 21
deflacja 1 dubbing 2
defragmentacja dubleton 21
defragmentator 5 dum-dum 21
defragmentować 1 duty-free 24
3
The Polish version of the instruction ran as follows: „Proszę zaznaczyć wyrazy, które uważa
Pan/Pani za niezaadaptowane czyli obce jednostki pochodzenia angielskiego. Oznacza to, że
jednostki leksykalne, które nie zostaną zaznaczone, uznaje Pan/Pani za zapożyczenia angielskie”.