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  • How can the language that gave us Durchfalls and Brustwart be so deficient?

    As luck would have it, German gave us neither.

    It's "Durchfall", and that's merely a direct translation of the Greek "dia-(r)-roia", used in English in its Latinised form.

    The other word is "Brustwarze".

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