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sedeki
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Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, coul...
I'm Swedish and have never seen nor heard "schtum" before.
Guess "keeping quiet" didn't come to the author's mind. /s
CRConrad
on April 28, 2021
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And it didn't sound the least bit familiar from any similar Swedish word...?
sedeki
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Of course it does, given that there is a cognate Swedish word. I still have never seen "schtum" in English before. Maybe I'm just a schmuck.
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Guess "keeping quiet" didn't come to the author's mind. /s