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I asked my subscribers for their burning word origin questions. They provided me with a goldmine of curious queries. In this video, I answer a few of them.

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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:09 The chicken or the egg?
1:19 Why passenger not passager?
3:30 Celtic words in English
6:40 Silent H in rhythm and where
12:59 Two meanings of “maroon”
14:48 English trends that came back
17:40 Why are donkey and monkey said differently?
19:00 Why are first and third germanic, but second isn’t?
22:25 William spelled Pilliam
27:37 Overhelmed, underwhelmed but not whelmed
29:34 English in 1000 years

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