Although English has borrowed tens of thousands of words and phrases from other languages, other languages have also borrowed tens of thousands of words and phrases from English. The English phrase bowl of punch, for example, was borrowed in the seventeenth century by at least two other cultures: the French, who corrupted it to bollepunge, and the citizens of Bombay, who corrupted it to palepuntz. In time, these new words were taken back into English as British travellers and traders mistook the odd-sounding bollepunge and palepuntz for native French or Hindi words. As a result, in the late seven teenth century, British travel writers would occasionally remark on the popularity of a quaint Indian drink called palepuntz, or would note the fondness of the French for a beverage called bollepunge, apparently unaware that the names of these potations derived from their very own language.