Skum
Have you ever looked at a fire extinguisher in Denmark?
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No? Can I say that I’m not surprised?
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If you did you might be surprised to see that foam fire extinguishers don’t have the word foam on the sign above them
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They have the word skum instead.
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Scum in English is from the Middle Dutch word schum, which means foam.
Madeira’s part of Portugal, so here are some photographs of espuma.
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English; the language with more words for the same thing than any other language, apart from words for love and snow. Probably.