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Mysteries of vernacular: Window – Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel

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Metaphoric compounds, like the combination of the words wind and eye to represent a window, populated Norse and Old English. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel describe how this love of metaphor created the word window.

Lesson by Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel, animation by Jessica Oreck.

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