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So this etymology is just funny, the etymology of “mortgage.” Which when you start to think about it, you can probably guess, it means dead pledge. It’s Latin: mort = death, gage = pledge. And the idea being that the deal dies when you fail to pay, or theoretically when you die. I know many of us feel that way about our mortgages now. But …
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