Linguistic Siblings: 14 Pairs of Words With Surprisingly Shared Etymologies

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Linguistic Siblings: 14 Pairs of Words With Surprisingly Shared Etymologies

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Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

The connections between words aren’t always as straightforward as the link between ‘run’ and ‘runner.’

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