This is why I love detecting the origins of a word

Where a clue was a centuries-old ball of yarn— unravelled through time, follow it into the present — to where it’s a possible answer to a mystery — like language’s unpredictable unfoldings and evolvings. Its mercuric illogical logic.
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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This is why I love detecting the origins of a word
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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