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March 4, 2020: The Word of the Day is two. I thought we would go up to eleven.

Language Word
Latin duo, duae, duo
Japanese 二 (に ni), 二つ (ふたつ futatsu)**
Spanish dos
Chinese 二 èr, 两 liǎng (two of something)
Esperanto du
Russian два (dwa)
German zwei
French deux

** note: the pronunciation is reported in Romaji which is the standard to transform phonemes from Japanese scripts to Roman alphabet. Essentially the consonants must be pronounced as in English while the vowels as in Italian/Latin.

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