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Oh, I love words. I bet I use them every day. I'm using them right now. There's just so many of them and each has a melody, a meaning, and a backstory. That's especially true for us English speakers. It's probably likely, depending on how you count them, that English has a richer vocabulary than other languages because it borrowed so

many words as it developed. Germanic, Celtic, French, Latin, Greek, so many roots and prefixes and

suffixes and stories. Boy, do I enjoy a good etymology.

And if you're a word lover, too, do we have a treat for you, just in time for Valentine's weekend?

On today's Saturday matinee, we have an episode from the podcast, Etymolion, dedicated to

the language of love, exploring theories about the origins of Valentine's Day, why they're

called French kisses, why being

a flirt in the Middle Ages was far from flattering, and finding the foolish roots of the word

infatuate.

I hope you enjoy.

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