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Theory

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New Verbing?

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People named after colors.

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crapulence

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A Glancing Blow

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Country Name Origins

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Crayfish, crawfish, and crawdads

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analemma/lemniscate

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Ingenuity/ingenious

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use of Judeo-Christian as a descriptive phrase

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What is Language?

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Literary Eponyms

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Coinages

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North American Pre-Columbian Languages

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Rhythm or Rhythmn?

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Millennium, Biennial, Perennial, Annals:

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Northern Spy

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Words from Latin via Old English

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You, a Short History

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New York, a Graveyard for Languages

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vampire

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Demotic Egyptian

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origin of smash

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Etymology in Color

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Germania

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Words coming from the root acro...

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Melancholy,Melanin

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online etymology search question

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Origin of the word "Wow"

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Stellar, Constellation

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Slower than molasses in January

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Scrumping - A peculiarly english verb?

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eu as a prefix

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Languages Grew From a Seed in Africa

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Phrase Etymology

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Rustic and rusticate

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Etymology of “earth” and “great groups of words”

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Ambulare

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Hmmm...crotch+ ending this and crotch+ ending that

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Money Words

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Endorse and dorsal...

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A sault of lions... no such thing!

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Harrumph!!! Harrumph!!!

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Salad

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A Load of Bull (or Cow?)

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I'm in a little bit of a jam

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Euphemism and blasphemy

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derry down, down derry

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In the Tank

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