Do synonyms exist? (Inside Story)
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English - October 12, 2016 13:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBEducation categories csv swinburne commons level3 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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They might have started off meaning the same things, but words acquire all kinds of baggage along the way - which means that mutts, hounds, curs and canine quadrupeds aren’t interchangeable, despite what the thesaurus might imply. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 12 October 2016.