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 What do these words have in common? Wi-Fi SOS Idaho Zumba Ginsu Kpdak Halitosis Corinthian leather | ||
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 If my guess (based on knowledge of exactly two of them) is correct I think you could probably add Kwanzaa. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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 I don’t know. | |||
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| <Proofreader> | 
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 You may be on the right track. | ||
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 All I can think of is that Idaho, zumba, ginsu and kodak are words made of whole cloth, with no etymons. But the others are not. | |||
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 I don't know.  A hint? | |||
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