As a rule, we tend to worry about what gets lost in translation. It’s so easy to lose the phonetic peculiarities and rhythmical beauty of a language, not to mention the connotations certain words bring with them. But there is…
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vaccine
A linguist friend recently asked me if I was familiar with the etymology of the word “vaccine.” (Yes, linguists talk about this in general conversation). I wasn’t, and she enlightened me. It’s from the Latin for “cow” – vacca –…