Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz> said:
>If it became important to a group of
>American English speakers to talk about "gezellig", they would probably
>learn what it meant and then use the Dutch word.
>
Like "apartheid", probably the best-known Dutch word to ever leave the country
(and it seems that you can get quite far by talking Dutch on a Russian marine
ship - Czar Peter learnt the trade here and apparently didn't bother to 
translate all the naval terms)

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