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Athanasius Kircher, Turris Babel, Amsterdam, 1679. The tower, and the confusion of languages
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Words you say every day that once meant something else, sometimes the exact opposite. Some drifted over centuries. Some were changed on purpose, and those are marked. Click any word to trace it.
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