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TIL Donald Watson, who coined the word vegan, said he got the term from the word vegetarian by taking its first three letters and its last two letters because "veganism starts with vegetarianism and carries it through to its logical conclusion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vegan_Society
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