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Today's topic is animal words with no animal origins.

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I'm tortured here right now because I'm sitting in front of

two of the cutest cats on the planet and it's torture I hope you feel sorry for me. I hope you

are doing well and I hope you are enjoying these podcast episodes on

language and animals including the most recent one on animals in the alphabet

though I already need to make an addendum.

Yet another letter of the alphabet has animals in its roots

and that's the letter X, which means that seven,

not six letters of our 26 letters of our Roman alphabet, have animals in them.

That's over a quarter of our alphabetical letters with animals in them.

I think that's pretty amazing.

So I missed that. I missed the letter X in my initial

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