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So I was talking to my friend Scott the other day and he tipped me off to this incredible etymology, which is “Disaster.” So, originally it comes from Latin, “astrum,” and then Italian, “dis- + astro”—star. So I think the original idea was that something was ill-starred or ill-fated, but I like to think of it as more of an explosion, right? A…
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