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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 21:07:54 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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   • Rob van Kan🔻
   • Madeleine Morris

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   @edgeofeurope

   And then, there is the Zócalo,
   the Aztecs' (actually, Mexicas') main square in Mexico City 😜

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%B3calo
   @Remittancegirl

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     Rob van Kan🔻 (edgeofeurope@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 21:07:55 JST Rob van Kan🔻

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     • Madeleine Morris

     @Remittancegirl These can be painful mistakes. A zoccolo is a wooden shoe in Italian; zoccola however means whore.
     It's a good thing I don't wear zoccoli because for sure I would've made the mistake.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 21:07:56 JST Madeleine Morris

     Freudian slip of the year: ‘libro de carne’ instead of ‘libra de carne’ (book of flesh instead of pound of flesh)

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.