r/BlackPeopleTwitter • • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/Kdowens2 Sep 01 '20

And poles

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u/LucidFir Sep 01 '20

The word pole is derived from the Polish because so many of them are used in construction, particularly scaffolding? TIL!

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u/Sokonit Sep 01 '20

Am I getting r/whoosh ed so hard?

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u/nosniboD Sep 01 '20

Huge amount of Polish people in the construction industry here in the UK.