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To the Dutch word for “cake,” koek, the suffix -je had been added to mean that the koekje, pronounced “KOOK-yieh,” was a “little cake,” something that might have been called a cakie or a caken, or even a cakeling or cakelette, had it first been named in English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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To the Dutch word for “cake,” koek, the suffix -je had been added to mean that the koekje, pronounced “KOOK-yieh,” was a “little cake,” something that might have been called a cakie or a caken, or even a cakeling or cakelette, had it first been named in English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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