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liedra on July 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Estimate your English vocabulary size

I thought in aDwD that "leal" was just yet another Kindle OCR mess-up for "loyal" until I found out it actually really is a word - an old English word for "loyal"! Goes to show... something, I guess! :)

blaenk on July 27, 2011 | [–]

Also, leal means loyal in spanish, that's how I knew, when I was reading that book :)

officemonkey on July 17, 2011 | [–]

That's why I really like reading with the Kindle app. The dictionary is only a tap away. I'm now in the habit of looking up every word I don't know.

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