Sauna is the Most Common Finnish Word in English

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Sauna is by far the most common everyday word adopted in English from Finnish. A distant second is sisu, a term for “grit” or “determination,” which is particularly associated with the hardiness and fortitude of Finns themselves. This is part of a complete episode.

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