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Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Window

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Metaphoric compounds, like the combination of the words wind and eye to represent a window, populated Norse and Old English. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel describe how this love of metaphor created the word window. [1:57]

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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