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Episode: Minicast Bonus: Cocktail
Description: In this bonus A Way with Words minicast, Martha and Grant look into the myriad stories behind the word cocktail. Does the drink name come from feathers? Horses? Something up a horseâs rump? Itâs a weird wandering down etymology laneâŚ
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