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Words delight me no end. I use them all day long without giving them a second thought - but when I take a moment to notice them, to study them, I'm delighted again and again to learn about their shades of difference, their origins, and the many fascinating ways they've been used by minds sharper and broader than my own.

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galaxy

A luscious napoleon from the fabulous French bakery led me on a click-fest through Wikipedia. Reading about mille-feuille pastries, I saw a link to the Galaktoboureko pastry. My mind on the mille in mille-feuille, I wondered whether the "galac" part of galactoboureko might mean "many" or "million", something like the "mille" in my Napoleon.

So off I went to the OED to get a good grasp of the etymology.

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