On kai tyypillistä, että valtakielestä otetaan omaan lainasanoja. Otetaan toki osuvia sanoja muualtakin. Pete Seegerin laulussa All Mixed Up sanoitetaan tämä näin:
You know, this language that we speak
is part German, part Latin and part Greek,
with some Celtic and Arabic all in the heap;
Well amended by the man in the street.
Choctaw gave us the word 'okay',
- 'Vamoose' is a word from Mexico way,
- And all of this is a hint, I suspect,
of what comes next.
I think that this whole world soon, mama,
my whole wide world,
Soon, mama, my whole world
Soon gonna be get mixed up.