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    9 months ago

    We probably do that because English has a lot of German

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      9 months ago

      I know at least one; window. You took that from the Swedish word vindöga, wind eye, that means the same thing as window. But it’s no longer used in Swedish as it doesn’t really make sense since we have windows made of glass now and not just holes in the wall