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Coin means corner but it’s also French for “quack”

There are words I assumed were international, that simply traverse language, and in my mid 20s I found out they do not. Place names for example: Paris is called Parigi in Italian; Paryžius in Lithuanian and let’s not forget she was originally called Lutetia Parisiorum by the ancient Romans.

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