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Sometimes the most enjoyable words for me are those that have cousins everywhere in our large family of languages, and often they’re cousins that show up where you don’t expect them. For example, we’ve got the word thatch, which refers to that thick matting of earth and grass that you might use as the roof for your house in northern climes — you’re cer…

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