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		Koshkin 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian Also compare the Polish 'chrząszcz' with its Cyrillic equivalent 'хрущ' (but take into account a difference in pronunciation).

adrian_b 15 days ago [–]

Because Polish has avoided to use diacritics in many cases, many Polish words are much longer not only than their Cyrillic equivalent, but also than their Czech equivalent, where the Polish double letters are replaced by letters with diacritics.

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