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Why ‘Useless Etymology’ gives you super powers, with Jess Zafarris

Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

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Escalate is a back-formation from escalator

Jess shows escalate emerged after escalator, with earlier escalade meaning scaling walls and scala meaning ladder.

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