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Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist Podcast

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Is There Resistance to Gender in the English Language?

"I've been doing a lot of work about gender in language. That's all festering into something," she says. "Some people fear change and change can consciously or unconsciously to people just be almost insulting" The etymology of compassionate? It's late Latin for calm plus patty, so to suffer together,. But compassion is to feel the pain of others, which is terribly moving.

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