Do You Have a 'Doppelgänger'? — VOA Learning English
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
English borrows from many other languages. And today we talk about a word that comes from German – doppelgänger.
The word “doppelgänger” comes from German folklore. The online dictionary Merriam-Webster describes the old story. All living creatures have a spirit who is invisible but exactly the same as the living person. But just because you can’t see them, doppelgängers are not ghosts. They are sometimes described as “the spiritual opposite or negative of their human counterpart.”
Even though the word comes from spiritual folklore, we use it in a very real way. When two people look very similar, we can call them doppelgängers.
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