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trivet (4757 words)
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know-it-all, by trivet
Who Are You?, by Lampbane
slavonicisms, by rolig
Gesundheit!, by reesetee
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Haha! I scratched my head about those two totally different spellings for years! :-P
'The Russian revolution simmered for years and suddenly erupted when the serfs finally realised that the Czar and the Tsar were the same person.' — Woody Allen
Derived, as is kaiser, from Cæsar—first Caius Julius, Roman emperors thereafter being Cæsars, and figuratively, later, any emperor also.
(This English spelling became standard after being chosen by the Times newspaper at the end of the nineteenth century.)
Russian emperor.