NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Maggie Rowe and Emily Garcés, the hosts of the podcast "50 Words for Snow," about words English needs but does not have.

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Each year, new words find their way into the general American English lexicon. Even if we try to avoid them, these new slang ...

In Middle English, “very” carried the meaning of “actual” or “true,” as in being “ verray in worde and dede ” – that is, true ...