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Why Is English Awash in Sailors' Jargon? | Otherwords

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Why Is English Awash in Sailors' Jargon? | Otherwords

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There are so many common words and phrases in English that came from the world of sailing, it's almost OVERWHELMING!Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied...

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Frisian is an entirely different beast, and even speaking Dutch doesn’t help you that much to make sense of it.

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