Category: Feature
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Timely etymology: Debby, monopoly, waltz, and breaking
Bees. Books. Beats. Viennese dance crazes. German journeymen. This etymological news roundup has it all.
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Where does the word “aura” come from?
The word aura, recently spreading in internet slang for a kind of breezy confidence, has literal “breezy” origins of its own.
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Between the etymological cushions of “couch”
The origin of the word “couch” shows how the forms of words get moved around like furniture.
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Unpacking the origin of “brat”
Is the origin of “brat” a ‘rags’ to riches story? Plus, some unrelated etymological sausage.
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