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Words and their origins

Broadcast: Midmorning, 09/13/2007, 10:06 a.m.

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Midmorning's word expert returns to discuss word origins. This time around -- words that have one meaning, but also the opposite meaning.

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  • Anatoly Liberman: A professor in the department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of "Word Origins and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."

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