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Familiar Strangers - 6 June 2022

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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What if the Person You Are at Home Knows Nothing About Them?

In latin the word camera means room, which eventually gave rise to comerade. And when you're talking about the modern photographic device called a camera, that's a shortening of an earlier term. So anyway, i'm going to go back and re watch the whole thing. I think we'd love talking about etymology and word origins. Yes, we're available for consultation. You can emal us words at wayward radio dot org or tri us on twitter at w a y w o r d.

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