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Pineapples, butterflies, and etymology

Posted on June 28, 2014 | 1 comment

The words for ‘pineapple’ and ‘butterfly’ have a little thing in common in English – and a striking difference in other languages. Read about it in my latest article for TheWeek.com:

The curious linguistic history of pineapples and butterflies

 

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