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The English word "perennial" comes from two Latin words, "per" meaning throughout and "annus" meaning year, therefore, "perannus" which probably got changed somewhere along the line to "perannual" which became "perennial" probably through mispronunciation and lazy speaking, like so many other words in the English language.

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