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In recent years, however, many English words have been borrowed directly from German. Typically, English spellings of German loanwords suppress any umlauts (the superscript, double-dot diacritic in Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, and ü) of the original word or replace the umlaut letters with Ae, Oe, Ue, ae, oe, ue, respectively (as is done commonly in ...
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
Throwaway lines are often one-liners, or in-jokes, and often delivered in a deadpan manner. Similarly, in theater, a throwaway line is one uttered by a character where the only intended reaction is that of from the audience. Oftentimes, these lines may be references to other shows or media that only the audience are aware of.
In the comments section, others reacted to the video, with one stating, “This is the best we listen and we don’t judge I’ve seen 😂."
It is a common catchphrase in German, with examples of its use in work by Martin Luther, Johannes Kepler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Otto von Bismarck, Thomas Mann, and Günter Grass. [6] [7] Thomas Carlyle adapted the concept in an 1849 essay on slavery: [7] And if true, it is important for us, in reference to this Negro Question and some others.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
Vanna White's son, Nikko, generated a viral moment in the kitchen with his mom after fans declared him to be "handsome," and desperately wanted to know more.