# 98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)

An episode of [Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/436133392), 20 May 2024, 1 h 43 min.

Audio: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkthetalk/98_Origin_Uncertain.mp3?dest-id=897956

How much can we really know about the words we use? What are the facts behind some of the most tangled etymologies in English? And is our "Related or Not" game a good way of approaching word history? We're talking to Dr Anatoly Liberman, perhaps the world's preëminent living etymologist and the author of Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology.

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