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Denmark
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2 English words in this atlas trace back to Denmark. It sits in Denmark.
danishnoun · 20th century
Well attestedThe pastry is named for the wrong country.
Danish bakers learned the method from Austrian workers, and Danish itself calls it Viennese bread. English named it for the intermediary.
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something is rotten in the state of Denmarkverb · circa 1600
Well attestedHamlet does not say it; a guard on the battlements does.
Marcellus speaks the line in Act I of Hamlet, after the ghost leads the prince away, and he means the court rather than the kingdom. English lifted the sentence whole and now aims it at any institution, with Denmark carried along as an innocent bystander.
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