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I made a video last week about the word penultimate and how I’ve been misusing it, and someone on TikTok told me I should look at the word “vulnerable” and I was like, what do you mean? Vulnerable is one of the most venerable words in our common lexicon. Well, its etymology is actually the opposite of what it means today. Its etymology is to …
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