NB: there is a CATEGORY B swear word towards the end of this episode.

But it IS there for educational purposes only.

ALSO NB: After the episode was released, I was alerted that listener Ryan's request was about a FAKE Mike Pence statement. I CAN NEVER TRUST YOU AGAIN, RYAN! The etymological content still stands.

This episode is a companion to Allusionist 43: The Key part I - Rosetta, about how the Rosetta Stone enabled Egyptian hieroglyphics to be deciphered.

If you don't have a Rosetta Stone to hand, deciphering extinct languages can be a real puzzle, even though they didn't intend to be. They didn't intend to become extinct, either, but such is the life (and death) of languages. Linguistic historiographer Julie Tetel Andresen, classicist Nick Zair, and British Museum curator Irving Finkel survey the remains.

DECIPHER THIS TOPIC:

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MAILCHIMP'S RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:

jugulate