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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

Cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1728128

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In Estonia we don't say it like that usually. It's not wrong but we usually just say "pistaatsiapähkel".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It pretty much means pistachio nut.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was pretty much joking about how that's longer than any of the words on the map in OP. But apparently it wasn't a good joke.

[–] otp 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago