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holodukelast Friday at 8:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Funny that lots of words can be guessed correctly if one knows a few European languages. I speak Dutch, German, Russian, English and was able to recognize most of the words without ever using it in English. For example Seldom. It's very similar to Zelden in Dutch. I would never use the word Seldom though.


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tkzed49last Friday at 8:42 PM

Seldom is one of those words that's used occasionally in writing, but seldom in conversation.

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