Mysteries of vernacular: Noise - Jessica Oreck
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The words noise, nausea, and naval all stem from the same Latin root. Jessica Oreck divulges how their spellings and meanings diverged from the original naus.
Who might have been the first people to use nausea to mean stomach sickness, and what impact might their profession have had on the word's popularity?
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