Chuck Bryant
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
Old English will translate it as Holgen.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
Old Norse, Holfer.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
French.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
What would that be?
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
Frenchy.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
Sound like you're from Philly.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
And then Welsh is Asselin in German.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
I don't think that's how you say that, but that's how you spell it.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
German, I know this one is Steckpalme.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
But it all probably comes from Proto-Indo-European languages at the base, which is Q-E-L, which means prickly or to prick.
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Short Stuff: Why is holly a holiday thing?
Wake up, everyone.