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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by fidelramos on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:41PM (#27223496)
We say "parabólica" in Spain.
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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:00PM (#27223792)
That too (like "periferia") comes to Latinate languages through Latin from Greek.

Seems all you nice folk think of Greeks as... posh? Must be all the philosophers :P

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