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🥬How to say "lettuce" in various European #languages
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Is "Art" #masculine or #femenine? The grammatical #gender of the word "art" in different #languages

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"Bookworm" refers to larvae that damage books and avid readers. Other languages use metaphors like reading horse, book friend, book eater, or letter smitten.

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But how many lives do cats 😺have? https://t.co/6mbgzPTOyh

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This one just got an update this week #bulgaria #romania

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#schengen #europe #eu #border #Brexit #românia #freemovement #europeanunion #schengenarea

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Courgette was borrowed from French, that influenced the west,, while zucchini comes from Italian zucchino, became more popular in Central Europe. Interestingly, both terms descend from the Latin cucurbita, gourd. In the East, is the Turkish word kabak.

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Are you ready for 2025?

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The word #chickpea comes from Old French *pois chiche* and #Latin *cicer*, also seen in Italian *ceci*, Polish *ciecierzyca*, and Hungarian *csicseri*. #hummus comes from Arabic *حُمُّص*, meaning “chickpea.” #etymology #languages #mapologies #linguistics

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The term "skyscraper" originates from the words sky and scrape, evoking the image of a #building that reaches or touches the #sky. However, in others, it evolved into the metaphorical "#cloud scratcher," as seen in #German, #Romanian , or #Arabic

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Day 30 of #30DayMapChallenge: The final map: Happy day to Scotland. #MapChallenge https://t.co/Y9BgD6UMUR

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Day 28 of #30DayMapChallenge: the blue planet
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Day 27 of #30DayMapChallenge: micromapping
The small country in Europe is called Shqiptarë, but everybody else says Albania or something similar

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Day 25 of #30DayMapChallenge: Heat

An etymolgy map of the word "Heat"

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Day 24 of #30DayMapChallenge : Only circular shapes An alternative map of United Europe of 18 Circular states. Each circular state has a capital city radiating from Vilnius. Inspired in “Das Neue Europa mit dem dauernden Frieden” 1920 by P. A. Maas

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Day 22 of #30DayMapChallenge: two colors. Not everything is black and white, just f...

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