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Beware of the 'False Twins'!
Because a prude is prudent when it comes to sexual matters, you might assume that "prude" and "prudent" share the same origins. But that assumption, as George H. W. Bush liked to say, "wouldn't be prudent."
"Prude" derives from the French "prudefemme" (good woman), the feminine version of "prud'homme" (good man).
But "prudent" evolved from ...Read more