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RE: Foreign Loans in Mandarin Borrowed Through Shanghainese 現代漢語的上海外來語(話為什麼這麼說?)
The history of Shanghai, coupled with the phonetic clues I picked out, make it quite likely that these particular words came from Shanghainese rather than Cantonese, which is itself a very rich source of foreign loanwords (to be covered in a future post).
Thank you for the comment!