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Revelatory Thread Inspires Lightbulb Moments About Where Words And Phrases Actually Come From

If there’s one thing we can all agree on from years of speaking, reading and writing, it’s that the English language seems to operate in the most mysterious of ways. Between all the archaic grammatical rules and words that are a mishmash of several other different tongues, it’s a wonder non-native speakers manage to understand what we’re saying half of the time. As well as this, it means that we often don’t fully understand where the phrases we use originally come from. It is a topic which has …
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