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Your support makes all the difference.From the etymology of pastrami (the under-saddle meat rations of "nomadic horse-archers") to ancient Ottoman terms such as adamsendecilik ("being messed around pointlessly by someone in authority"), Stone brings a linguist's delight as well a historian's sweep to this enjoyable, opinionated canter through the past of an adopted country he much admires.
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