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fiets (noun, pronounced like the `extra' plural of foot: feets) bicycle. There is no more important noun in Dutch culture, as evidenced by the scores of bikes parked outside every academic building at the UT. Urban myth has it that there are as many bicycles as inhabitants of the Netherlands. By the way, be thankful for this mercifully easy to pronounce word. According to De Kampioen, it replaced the mouthful `vélocipède' around 1871 as the official Dutch word for bicycle.

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