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

Ologies with Alie Ward

CHAPTER

The Elasticity of Language

Etymology is rooted in human behavior and how we keep morphing things. The word bonus comes from the Latin for bone, a good thing. English has evolved much more rapidly than other languages that are deliberately kept the same. People use it the ways they need it to be used.

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