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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by sangnoir on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:45PM (#31356580)
They are snooty as hell, and I'll forever associate them with The New Yorker[1]. That said, I love them too! Now, if only we could do the same for awry and other words that trip up voracious readers.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by gsinclair on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:39PM (#31360448)
They were once coming in English-language publications but now are seen in only The New Yorker, The Economist, and one other. Can anyone recall which?
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by eru on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:31AM (#31364093)
Interestingly, they seem to survive most in naïve than in words like coöperate.

Co-operate is much more common than na-ive (which I've never seen). But both cooperate and naive seem reasonably well accepted.

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