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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse

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Egg Someone on - I'm Edging You On

O egg somonon is a very old phrase, and we would have in english, and old English, it was more like edge. The vikings had this edge word too, but they said egg. That was how they pronounced it. So our edge became egg and egon, and then our i became egg. And they just happened to sound exactly the same.

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