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I'm Swedish and have never seen nor heard "schtum" before. Guess "keeping quiet" didn't come to the author's mind. /s

• CRConrad 5y ago
  And it didn't sound the least bit familiar from any similar Swedish word...?
  • sedeki 5y ago
    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.
    • CRConrad 5y ago
      Ett kutterschmycke.