The Washington Post, June 11th, 1997
One feature of many languages is that they happily adopt words from other languages, transmuting them into new forms and different pronunciations, sometimes with new meanings or, at least, new connotations. Many, including English even transmute their own words, spinning off variant forms with variant meanings. This can be a source of confusion and, as we hope to show, a source of enlightenment. Etymolog, as we call this new, occasional feature of Horizon, will explore some of the origins of our words and relationships among them. CROWN traces its ancestry to the Latin corona, which means "cro...
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