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Five common English words we don't know the origins ofβ€”including 'boy' and 'dog'

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-common-english-words-dont-boy.html
tacosanonymous @lemm.ee - 1.4yr
  1. Bird
  2. Boy
  3. Girl
  4. Dog
  5. Recorder (Instrument)
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dditty - 1.4yr
  1. 🐦
  2. πŸ‘±β€β™‚οΈ
  3. πŸ‘§
  4. πŸ•
  5. πŸͺˆ
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πŸ‡Έβ€ŒπŸ‡΅β€ŒπŸ‡ͺβ€ŒπŸ‡¨β€ŒπŸ‡Ίβ€ŒπŸ‡±β€ŒπŸ‡¦β€ŒπŸ‡Ήβ€ŒπŸ‡ͺβ€ŒπŸ‡·β€Œ - 1.4yr

Case solved!

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MadBob @feddit.nl - 1.4yr

"The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors." is the least said with the most words I've seen in a fair while!

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Titou [she/her] - 1.4yr

There's also a huge amount of english words with french origins.

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Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.4yr

Why bring up that? They don't relate to unknown origins of a word...

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Titou [she/her] - 1.4yr

No offense, the post is talking about english words origin

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Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.4yr

Ah, okey...

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Coelacanth - 1.4yr

The first 4 I can understand. Single syllable words, hard to trace or make guesses about.

Recorder has always puzzled me. It's such a specific word, and never made any sense to me. I hope the article author succeeds in finding an answer.

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