Word of the Week
S01 E16: Noel
Season 1 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
What would the holidays be without it?
Two languages have conspired to give us a word that is well-suited to birthday celebrations…including one birthday that many of us celebrate. Can you guess whose?
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Word of the Week is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Word of the Week
S01 E16: Noel
Season 1 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Two languages have conspired to give us a word that is well-suited to birthday celebrations…including one birthday that many of us celebrate. Can you guess whose?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat instrumental music) - [Narrator] The word of the week is Noel, another word for the Christmas season.
We borrowed it from the French, but originally comes from the Latin word Natalis, which refers to birth and birthday.
That makes sense because of the famous birth celebrated on December 25th.
Oh, and if you read Noel backwards, it spells Leon.
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