History Hijinks: Another Dumb Italy Story

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Plot Twist: Language is wacky, who knew.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
A hefty amount of Wiktionary trawling to check and compare etymologies
Britannica "Romance Languages" https://www.britannica.com/topic/Romance-languages
A Linguistic History of Venice, Ronnie Ferguson, 2007
“The private language of Venice” by Robert Landon, BBC Travel, https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201013-the-private-language-of-venice
"Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Pronunciation History | Latin: The Immortal Language" & "How Latin became Italian 🇮🇹" by polýMATHY https://youtu.be/XeqTuPZv9as?si=eN6Zpc-dd2j_FT_D & https://youtu.be/J8QwK8Dorp0?si=m5tdJZ4c5V6blFlu
My relevant language experience is 2 years of university-level Italian and 4 years of middle-school French
I'll be honest this was a Wiktionary-heavy video

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