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		<title>By: Harry Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Harry Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say &quot;typhoon&quot; comes from Chinese.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I say &#8220;typhoon&#8221; comes from Chinese.</p>
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		<title>By: Isegoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought &lt;em&gt;typhoon&lt;/em&gt; was Chinese as well, but its &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon#Etymology_and_usage&quot;&gt;etymology&lt;/a&gt; is odder than I could&#039;ve imagined.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought <em>typhoon</em> was Chinese as well, but its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon#Etymology_and_usage">etymology</a> is odder than I could&#8217;ve imagined.</p>
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		<title>By: Graham</title>
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		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Pandit&quot; is the origin of pundit, a Hindi honorific often given to Nehru, for example. 

My favourite, not listed, is &quot;nabob&quot;, as in a rich potentate or corporate titan, a coffee brand, and nattering nabobs of negativism. Other than the coffee, it seems to have slipped out of standard usage since the 70s. It was originally from &quot;nawab&quot;, a Mughal provincial governor, who typically lived in a level of considerably grandeur.

I was most struck by typhoon, which I had assumed of Chinese origin, and atoll.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Pandit&#8221; is the origin of pundit, a Hindi honorific often given to Nehru, for example. </p>
<p>My favourite, not listed, is &#8220;nabob&#8221;, as in a rich potentate or corporate titan, a coffee brand, and nattering nabobs of negativism. Other than the coffee, it seems to have slipped out of standard usage since the 70s. It was originally from &#8220;nawab&#8221;, a Mughal provincial governor, who typically lived in a level of considerably grandeur.</p>
<p>I was most struck by typhoon, which I had assumed of Chinese origin, and atoll.</p>
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