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dedl67

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1. There is an amusing story about 'rake our forests"
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:56 AM
Jun 20

I heard from a Finnish person, if I remember this correctly, that the original description of how fires are limited in Finnish forests, had to do with the use of fire breaks. That makes a lot of sense. However, 'breaks' became something sounding like 'rakes' in the verbal description, because the Finns have some difficulty with the 'br' sound. In any case, only Trump would be insane enough to think it is perfectly plausible that the Finns rake their forests.

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