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A garden of delights for the word obsessed: a funny, amazing, and even profound world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent, the ones that tell us so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations and expand our minds. Did you... read more
First Sentence
The first and most essential word in all languages is surely 'hello', the word that enables one human being to converse with another:
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Authors & Contributors
- Adam Jacot de Boinod (Author)
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