Midriff and Rib Meet in the Middle

By John Ciardi

Published February 6, 2006 at 2:33 PM MST

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With some verbal sleight of hand, John Ciardi explores the origins of the words midriff and rib. They're relationship is not what it may seem, linguistically, at least.

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