Maybe I did hear it on QI, but it seems to be a quote from a guy called James D Nicoll:
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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Date: 2012-04-21 08:08 pm (UTC)"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
Also, I found this which is quite fun.
And the O comes from "women". Weirdly enough, that's the only one I remember! Look how compatible our information is. :P