A library patron looks at a book at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library on January 11, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of 'Etymology for Everyone: Word Origins and How We Know Them."
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We love words here at The Daily Circuit, and one of our favorite wordsmiths is University of Minnesota linguist Anatoly Liberman. He joins The Daily Circuit Monday to discuss words and word origins.
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