Word: embracen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...
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