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Re:Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? by forinti on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:28AM (#11109984)
I had to look up the origins of these words and they both derive from the latin "discretus". So this makes me wonder why there isn't one spelling only. It couldn't do more harm than the verb "to read".
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Re:Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? by kuschku on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:44AM (#11110093)
Interestngly, in German, there is only one spelling and pronunciation for both.
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Re:Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? by josemrb on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:12AM (#11110799)
Same in Spanish
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Re:Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? by forinti on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:09PM (#11111318)
And Portuguese (unsurprisingly).
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