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Where does the word shampoo come from?

What is the Rorschach test?

How did A Christmas Carol change the English language?

Why upper and lower case?

Where does the word dude come from?

Origin of nepotism?

Where does the word pundit come from?

Where does the word meme come from?

How did Japanese words enter the English language?

Why 'Maundy' Thursday?

Why are Academy Awards called Oscars?

What is Globish?

Origin of laughable?

Origin of word blackmail?

Where does the word Oz come from?

What is the origin of the word alphabet?

Origin of the word Jubilee?

What is a portmanteau word?

What is the Hobson-Jobson dictionary?

What is a zero-sum game?