4/20: everyday words

I asked each of the Etymology students to write a short paragraph about a word (its history and development) that they've encountered recently in their daily lives.  Everybody then read everyone else's and made connections.  I wanted them to think about etymology beyond an academic context, and I wanted them to share a little window into their world since we're now separated.  And two of them explicitly mentioned that they liked the spirit of it.

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