Greek Nouns

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    “What’s the Latin name for ‘parsley’?
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    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)