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1 " Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are " coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly. "
