See sterling on Wiktionary
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"text": "[I]s this base annunciation a mere swindle on the incautious, to beguile them of their time, their patience, and three shillings of sterling money of this realm?",
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"text": "This love, ſuppoſing it ſterling, I (ſtultus ego [I am foolish]!) return'd in kind: But I do not repent it.",
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"Polish entries referencing missing etymons",
"Polish entries with etymology texts",
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"Rhymes:Polish/ɛrliŋk",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛrliŋk/2 syllables",
"pl:Ascension Island",
"pl:British Antarctic Territory",
"pl:British Indian Ocean Territory",
"pl:Currencies",
"pl:Falkland Islands",
"pl:Gibraltar",
"pl:Guernsey",
"pl:Isle of Man",
"pl:Jersey",
"pl:Saint Helena",
"pl:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
"pl:Tristan da Cunha",
"pl:United Kingdom"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of szterling"
],
"links": [
[
"szterling",
"szterling#Polish"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "funt"
},
{
"word": "funt sterling"
},
{
"word": "funt szterling"
},
{
"word": "szterling"
}
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"animal-not-person",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈstɛr.liŋk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛrliŋk"
}
],
"word": "sterling"
}
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