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an 18th century London stock trader trying to describe some extra dividend or other goody in a deal misappropriated the latin word for a good guy
if he had known his latin he would have said bonum rather than bonus
but the word caught on & its meaning expanded in this erroneous form
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bonus already is an English word.
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