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Internet pedants should use the advantages inherent to the form of communication to check that they're right before they open their mouths.
I agree, notice how I pointed to non slavic cognates because Slavic languages, as a subset of the Indo-European language family, have farther reaching cognate origins than just slavic, and how the origins in the industrial era of the modern usage of the word corresponds to the rise of the modern labor movement.