Ancient Echoes
Latin roots go straight down in the soil like a careful farmer's rows of planted beans. Germanic words are mushrooms growing on the same rotten log, to steal a priceless image from Anatoly Liberman. - D.R.H.
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The hell did I just read?
If James Joyce discussed etymology with Gertrude Stein