• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    You’re going to have to give some hints - my browser can’t translate that and Google thinks I’m looking for exercises, doesn’t even recognize it as Finnish……. Otherwise I’ll have to remember it as “cow shit flats” because I know what that is

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      The current pronunciation is closer to Cow Sit Lats. “Finlanders gave the name to a broad meadow at the top of a hill where local farmers grazed their cattle. They had trouble pronouncing the English combinations “sh” and “fl,” so in their “Finnglish” argot they called the place Kowsit Lats.”