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dollar – dolour/dolor:
(‘dolour’ in British English)/(‘dolor’ in American English)
[These two words have the same pronunciation, as in ‘dollar’]
- one American dollar coin
“Dollar”, with a double ‘l‘, is ‘the unit of standard money, made in paper or coin, used in countries like the USA, Canada, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, etc.’; and is represented by the symbol ‘$’,
- one Canadian paper dollar
e.g.
I bought this camera for five US dollars ($ 5).
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“Dolour/Dolor”, with a single ‘l‘, is mostly used in poetic sense (in poems) to mean ‘sorrow; grief; pain; mental suffering’,
e.g.
The dolour of the writer of this story is certainly felt by her readers.
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