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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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The true origin of 'sophomore'

Jess explains sophomore derives from sophister (teachers of rhetoric), not Greek 'wise fool', with French influence.

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