HotForWords » Asylum http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Asylum http://hotforwords.com/2008/12/31/asylum/ http://hotforwords.com/2008/12/31/asylum/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:54:58 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=2282

Asylum… a place of refuge.. but where did the word come from?

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