| 词汇 | debt |
| 词源 | debt. Debt actually derives from the French dette, meaning the same, and should rightly be spelled without a b. However, clerical scholars in medieval times assumed that the word de- rived from the Latin debita and changed the spelling accord- ingly, saddling future generations with their learned error. |
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