Mysteries of vernacular: Noise - Jessica Oreck

2013-04-05

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The words noise, nausea, and naval all stem from the same Latin root. Jessica Oreck divulges how their spellings and meanings diverged from the original naus.

Lesson and animation by Jessica Oreck.