Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John.

Or as I like to call it, Dear Justin Hank.

It's a podcast where two brothers and sometimes just people answer your questions, give you

the abuse advice and bringing all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon.

But today we're doing none of that.

There's no dad joke, there's no Mars news, there's no John, there's no AFC Wimbledon.

We have an expert to help us answer a question that has been driving us mad.

It is not the question of whether or not sneezing is normal, which will continue to drive us

mad.

It is the question of why then there and that can be answered by the questions or are

the answers to the questions when, where and what.

And to help answer this question, we are being joined by Jeff Zafaris, who is an author

who has spent a lot of time studying etymology, has written a book on etymology and has also

a journalist and does a lot of different things.

Jess, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me on the show.

So I mean at the very basic level, can you explain to me what is going on?

Let's just start with that.

Absolutely.

So as I mentioned in the TIGTAC that I mentioned you in, a similar thing happens in a

ton of languages, especially Indo-European languages, which is this giant language family

comprised of many sub-families of languages that are spoken today.

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