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[–] 10 points 1 year ago

You're probably just making a joke, but that's not the etymology of "cretin".

Cretin became a medical term for Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome in the 18th century, from an Occitan and an Alpine French expression, prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common.

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