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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

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

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months 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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