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Koshkin on June 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ghoti

Natives, on the other hand, tend to misspell (like you did ‘lieutenant’).

andrewshadura on June 21, 2020 [–]

Well, TIL, but apparently leftenant used to be an acceptable spelling a century ago.

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