The World in Words 52: A dingo ate my language, a Latin mystery solved, and Comrade Fatso

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The language that gave English the words dingo and boomerang has been extinct for more than a century. But that’s not stopping one Australian school from teaching it. A better known language that refuses to die, Latin, lives on in the dummy texts of book and web designers. But who wrote the most famous Latin dummy text? Also, the music and poetry of bilingual Zimbabwean Comrade Fatso.

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