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785. Crossword Puzzles & Word Origins (with Fred Eyangoh)

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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Is It Tube or Tune?

In the states it might be tube or tune, right? Depending on where, which part of the country. It's also very common in Peru if I'm not mistaken. And you get words like typhoon, which we just take for granted as an English word, but it's Japanese. Yeah. Typhoon, meaning a big storm. That's how it's pronounced at Quechua. Another child of American language. Yes,. Exactly.

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