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  What it means

  Literally “call it what you will.” Means the name doesn’t matter — whatever you call it, it’s the same thing. “Call it what you like,” “a rose by any other name.”

  Vocabulary

  • zwać — to call, to name (archaic/literary)

  Grammar note

  'Zwał' is the impersonal past of 'zwać' — 'as one called it, so one called it.' A fixed phrase using an archaic verb form.

  Intermediate

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