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In US English soil is commonly referred to as Dirt (ie unclean and negative) whilst elsewhere and other languages soil and the planet share the same word, earth or the equivalent. I was trying to understand the psychology and reason that this giver of life has a negative name in the US?

by /u/SweatyNomad in /r/askscience

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