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Linguistics, etymology, languages, and communication
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English borrowed most words from French
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Polari slang helped British theater folk communicate secretly
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Old English sounded more like German than modern English
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Latin shapes over 60 percent of medical terms
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The Oxford English Dictionary reveals words' secret histories
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The word 'quiz' may stem from an 18th-century Irish prank
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The sandwich was named after a gambling earl
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The word 'freelance' comes from medieval knights
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The singular 'they' is older than you think
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The Greek alphabet shaped Western writing
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The shortest English sentence is just two letters
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Australia once had over 250 Indigenous languages
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How an ancient language became modern Israel's official tongue
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The word 'OK' started as a joke abbreviation
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Sign languages have regional dialects, like spoken ones
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