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I got a little exasperated with a Dutch person today.

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—Autumn 2003. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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* A reader in December 2009 suggested that maybe the listener had thought I'd said "kappie." I looked up this word in Google Translate, and got "skipper." So the guy might have heard me say a real word that I did not intend, and which did not make any sense in the context.

(And thanks to that reader for the link to the image of the sleutels) ...

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