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What Marriage Really Is

. . . as according to the Norse. As promised yesterday, today’s word-of-the-day is “fellow,” since the Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories was so kind as to refer me to this word when I looked up “companion.” According to … Continue reading

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True Friendship

Every day in my German class, we start out with a slang word of the day (auf Deutsch, natürlich). Today, we were going over different words for friends and acquaintances. One that really struck me was “der Kumpel” or “der … Continue reading

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