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Get the Word! with Mike Butler: Grandfathered In

Get the Word! with Mike Butler: Grandfathered In

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Original release date: January 26th, 2021


Welcome everyone to another episode of Get the Word! The series focusing on the etymology (history and origin) of words in English.


Listen for these words today:

Enfranchise - to ‘enfranchise’ means to give the right to vote to someone

Disenfranchise - to ‘disenfranchise’ means to deprive or remove someone’s right to vote

Voter suppression - voter suppression is a strategy that is used to prevent or discourage certain types of people from voting, in order to influence the outcome of an election.


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