Why Do These Words Sound Similar?! 🤯 | Day 25

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[00:00:01]Why do memory, commemorate, and memo all sound similar?

[00:00:05]Because they come from the same root family, mem, which means to remember.

[00:00:09]So, memory literally means the ability to remember. So, memo is something written to help you remember, commemorate is remember and honor something, and memorize is place into memory. So, every time your brain randomly remembers an embarrassing moment from 5 years ago, that's your memory working overtime. One tiny root, an entire family of words. And suddenly, commemorate doesn't seem like a difficult word anymore. English becomes easy once you stop memorizing and start decoding. Tomorrow's root appears in territory, terrain, and Mediterranean.

[00:00:41]See if you can decode it.