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> Perhaps it's no coincidence then that their word for taxes, skat, also means “sweetheart”. The word "skat" means treasure. That's why we also use it as a wo

> Perhaps it's no coincidence then that their word for taxes, skat, also means “sweetheart”. The word "skat" means treasure. That's why we also use it as a word for our sweethearts.

azeirah 10y ago
Oh cool, we have the same word in Dutch, "schat".
- vidarh 10y ago
  You know any two of German + one of the Scandinavian languages + Dutch, you can often read the third pretty well if you apply some imagination - they're all very closely related.