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Bob l'éponge (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Old french : esponge -> éponge (french) | sponge (english)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

As you said it's old french, we just make it shorter and easier to pronounce