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31-08-2010, 11:20
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As I said when I wrote the first of these blog essays, the origins of the words “ale” and “beer” are a surprisingly tangled mystery, with no particularly obvious root for either word. Nor has anyone ever explained convincingly why the “continental” branch of West Germanic (the one that eventually became German in all its [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zythophile.wordpress.com&blog=832235&post=1363&subd=zythophile&ref=&feed=1

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