It's limited to hats in my English, at least for the moment

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This makes the end of 'puny' related (distantly, via Latin) to the beginning of 'jaunty'.
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Brilliant, thank you for joining us! I'm counting on being on Oxford for sure (nothing in my calendar could beat it), so do say hello.

Probably... yes? But where I could make it available afterwards is not clear to me. Video content is a personal Rubicon of mine...

It never had them! Indo-European in general is very B-deficient. When we compare the family's words and take sound changes into account, the number of ancestral B words ends up minute – so few that its status as a PIE phoneme is in doubt. I have actually been meaning to read something about this...

Gladly! If you get out your Latin dictionary, you'll see that the B chapter is short, even shorter if you group words with a shared root. This is because Latin's Indo-European inheritance lacks initial B. What few roots and prefixes there are come from borrowing, onomatopoeia (būbō) and sound change

Latin būbō gets an honourable mention, for reasons of acoustic cuteness, but also for being a go-to example when teaching/writing about Latin's issue with B-initial words.

In Norwegian, we took the "Uhu" and threw in a "bro" – 'brother'. The owl is called "hubro". Uhu-brother.

The difference would've been more obvious for the Ancient Greeks, as the region had a long Ω vowel (Ἰωνία) and the sea a short Ο (Ἰόνιος).

Interesting, thanks!

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Yes, I have been watching Detectorists again.

Yes indeed – self-referential objects are very common in antiquity and medieval times