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Historical linguistics fact I’ve been trying to remember: gentle, genteel, gentile, and jaunty were all imported into English from the same word in French (gentil) at different times in history
Historical linguistics fact I’ve been trying to remember: gentle, genteel, gentile, and jaunty were all imported into English from the same word in French (gentil) at different times in history
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