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Original Meanings Quiz
Some of our common, everyday words began with a meaning that is unrecognizable to most of us today.
The following quiz, based on the evidence we have available to us now, will test either your knowledge of how our language was used hundreds of years ago, or your ability to guess on that subject.
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