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Description
Every new word you learn creates a number of possibilities equal to how many words you already know. The more words you learn, the more exponential the gains in combinations become!
Like how Xi Jingming’s surname sounds like the Russian word “щи”, cabbage soup.
Also, the early Germanic people’s fear to name bears may have done us out of a rhyming mnemonic for remembering polar bears and emperor penguins live a world apart. Proto-Indo-European *h₂əŕtḱos† would probably have yielded in Proto-Germanic something like *urþaz, Old English *orþ, Modern English *orth.
†I’m spelling it with a schwa because for some reason, the computer shifted the syllabic-consonant mark from under the R to under the T when I pasted the text.