கேள்வி: ஆங்கிலம் உள்வாங்கிக்கொண்ட தமிழ்ச்சொற்கள் - தற்போது தர்க்கிக்கப்படும் சொற்கள் குறித்து விரிவாக சொல்லுங்கள்.
பதில்: Major English dictionaries like ''Oxford English Dictionary'', ''American Heritage Dictionary'', and ''Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary'', do not conclusively attribute Tamil origin to these words. ; anaconda : possibly from Tamil ''aanai kondan'', elephant killer [http://news2.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/photogalleries/0802_snakes1.html National Geographic] - "The name "anaconda" comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means "elephant killer." It is uncertain how a word from the island of Sri Lanka, near India, came to be applied to a snake that lives in the Amazon basin of South America, though it may be because of the anaconda's similarity to Asian pythons." Most dictionaries (AHD, MWD, ''New Oxford American Dictionary'') give origin from சிங்களம் ''henakaňdayā'', "whipsnake". ; coolie : Of disputed origin. OED states Tamil is proposed by some as the language of origin, from கூலி ''cooli'' a Tamil word for labour. ; rice : The English word ''rice'' is borrowed from the Greek word "oruza" ((μαγειρ.) ὄρύζα) which is similar to the Tamil அரிசி ''arici'' and Telugu ''Vari'' referring to paddy . In relation to the etymology of ''rice'', linguists in the 1920s categorically ruled out the possibility of a Tamil origin arguing, inter alia, that there was no direct contact between the South of India and the Greek-speaking world in the 4th century BC (see e.g. Jules Bloch's "Le nom du riz", printed in ''Etudes Asiatique'', L'ecole Francaise d'extreme orient, 1925). Of late, it is well established that there were in fact significant trade links between India and Greece at that time, and several newer scholars take it for granted that the word entered Greek from Tamil (e.g. John Thorley's 1969 piece "The development of trade between the Roman Empire and the East under Augustus", printed in ''Greece & Rome'', 16:2 at pp. 222).