Bulldogz Team

1 min

Interesting Etymologies 4 : Folk Etymologies

Updated: Mar 27, 2022

Our series continues with an exploration of some common "folk etymologies" in English. Many of these come from French. These are words where we all think we know the back story but in fact coincidence of sound or something that seems obvious on the face of it can be misleading. Charly does talk about Russian words for the first couple of minutes, do not be alarmed, it does not last for long!

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