The Origins of Water

Linguistic archaeologists have looked at some of the earliest words in languages across the board. They look to see similarities between these words which suggest that they go back to the same or, if you like, and sister. And my British water was on their list. It's fundamental. Where does water come from? Well, I was just going to tell you some of those words that it's trickled into. In Greek it was Houdor, it's from bad pronunciation, but that gave us hydrolylic. We have Latin under. Abundance, you've got that under again in it as well. So the idea originally probably was to have lots and lots of water,

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