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Merriam Webster: Time Traveler
elizabeth
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mk
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Pretty cool origin of the word "ampersand" (= "&")
mk
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mike
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Ask Hubski: What's a phrase that you are interested to know the origins of? OR... what's a word or phrase whose origins you find interesting?
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What is a favorite word of yours?
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FOX calls Westboro Baptist Church "Left Wing Cult"
NotPhil
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theadvancedapes
newshounds.us
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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
Quatrarius
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ButterflyEffect
qz.com
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#52facts
Dord
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mk
wikipedia.org
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Who wins in the name game?
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thenewgreen
theatlantic.com
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The Origin of the Pilcrow, aka the Strange Paragraph Symbol
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galen
smithsonianmag.com
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7 Lost American Slang Words
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thenewgreen
npr.org
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The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks
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ecib
upenn.edu
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Why the Words for ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages - The Atlantic
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thenewgreen
theatlantic.com
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A Brief History of Dude - J.J. Gould - The Atlantic
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thenewgreen
theatlantic.com
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Then and Than etymology
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JakobVirgil
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Why there weren’t any scientists before the late nineteenth century.
kleinbl00
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mk
thonyc.wordpress.com
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Oxford Dictionary Adds ‘Fo’ Shizzle,’ ‘Masshole’ and ‘Hot Mess’
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insomniasexx
time.com
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Ashkenazi names: The etymology of the most common Jewish surnames.
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humanodon
slate.com
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Fifth Column
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wikipedia.org
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A New Theory on "Mark Twain"
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deiki
lareviewofbooks.org
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