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The slippery ways of words
Words slowly change over years, but just how did the word "kohl", meaning "makeup", turn into the word "alcohol"? And what others words have changed over the years? Paul Anthony Jones, author of The Accidental Dictionary, explains to James Menendez.
(Picture:The wax figure of Elizabeth Taylor, as Cleopatra聰, from Madame Tussauds in Hollywood. Credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
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