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Mum wake up, new division just came through (feddit.it)

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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

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

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[-] boraca@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

We also have fistaszki in Polish, but it doesn't mean pistachios - it's what we call peanuts sometimes.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

In Turkish, when you say "fıstık" alone, people would understand peanuts as well. However peanut is "yer fıstığı" while pistachio is "Antep fıstığı" or for the pink ones "Siirt fıstığı".

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