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🔴 **Word of the week: Tariff**

Nancy Friedman

“_It was actually exported twice: first from Arabic ta’rif (“information, notification, a making known; inventory of fees to be paid”) into Italian, and then, in the late 1500s, from Italian tariffa (“a book of rates for duties”) into English._”

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