Things unexpectedly named after people
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Fantastic false cognates - words that seem related, but aren’t
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The many weird plural forms of English
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The etymologies of military ranks
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From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
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Dead as a doornail
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Surprising shared word etymologies
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Where does music come from? (An abridged history of music, memory and language)
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Birds: Surprisingly connected etymologies
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This word does not exist
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
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Color or fruit? On the unlikely etymology of "orange"
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