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Listen to native speakers pronounce “fakery” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
Says, quote, "there is no other kind of fraud practiced by which larger profits are made." And so in order to combat what he saw as rampant gemfakery, forgery, and fraud in the classical world, Pliny offers what we might call a scratch test to be able to differentiate diamonds from fakes.So this is the first example of a scratch test being used in diamond history.