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Danny Bate

@DannyBate4

Linguist. 'That etymology guy'. PhD student in Edinburgh/Prague, working on syntax and really old languages. Purveyor and podcaster of language facts. He/his.

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The best etymology I've read recently has to be that Swiss mercenaries exclaiming 'by God!' in the 15th century gave Spanish its word for 'moustache', bigote.

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