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The thrice-weekly newsletter of Wordorigins.org. Since 1997, we have been providing rigorously researched, yet readable information on the history of the English language.

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Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

Dave has a PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Toronto and has been publishing Wordorigins.org since 1997.

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