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Today I learned that the word Pączki has a little squiggle on the a, and that squiggle is called an ogonek. Pronunciation of pączki is something like "poonch-key", and the ogonek (which means little tail in Polish) nasalizes the vowel sound.
For the uninitiated, pączkis are a Polish thing - filled heavy donuts eaten on Fat Tuesday, big in Detroit environs -centered around Hamtramck -people will commute quite some distance to get genuine Hamtramck pączkis
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