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keuriseumaseu · TOPIK 1

Christmas

🎄🎁 English Christmas in Korean sounds: keu-ri-seu-ma-seu

A loanword from English. Korean cannot stack consonants, so the filler vowel eu is slipped in: Chr becomes keu-ri, s becomes seu, mas stays ma, and the final s becomes seu. Say Christmas slowly with extra eu sounds and you have it.

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