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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by SilasX on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:22PM (#7674350)
"Rest" is used to mean "remainder" is German as well. It was quite a surprise in class to read the line "Wo ist der Rest?" ... and find out it was legit German.
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