7 Words With Genuinely Surprising Origins
Are “sphinx” and “sphincter” really related to each other?
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6 min readJan 11
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A large portion of the words we use in English are sensible, law-abiding citizens that have evolved in the established fashion from Greek or Latin or the Anglo-Saxon in an orderly and predictable manner. But some words like to be heroes — to shock you with an absolutely bizarre etymology or an…
