Dictionary of Received Ideas
Resilience
Mário de Carvalho

Once in circulation, there are certain words can seem strange to anyone who is literate. Some come to stay and settle. Others flit about but never roost, and sooner or later take flight and are gone. When it comes to words borrowed from other languages, there are those that invoke the mysterious nemesis we call ‘the nature of the language’ – its identity. Perhaps the best approach is to be practical. Such words can come in handy; that is all. It is even possible that the ‘nature of the language’ may have something to do with it.