Orig. Uncert: Words with no etymologies

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Etymologies are delicious stories of our language that are widely discussed and treated as factual. But they are actually the product of an obscure subdiscipline of historical linguistics and semiotics. Most etymologies are unknown past certain points, but there are some surprisingly common words that we do not know the origin of.

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