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Why Do We Have Rights, But We Don't Have Lefts?
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Why Do We Have Rights, But We Don't Have Lefts?

Also, what's up with all the silent P's and G's at the start of English words?

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Why Do We Have Rights, But We Don't Have Lefts?
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Two neat questions this week!

Noah B. notices that in Russian, to the right is napravo while the word for truth is pravda (and the word for rights is prava) — as in: Russian spreads meanings across the word right in the same way as English. He asks if this is the case in other European languages, and indeed it is.

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