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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English?

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nodimetotie@lemmy.worldOP
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Really?

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PlexSheep@feddit.de
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I mean the English usually don’t call mountains Berg, right? Berg is German for mountain. Ice of course being Eis. And we like compound words.

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InternationalBastard@lemmy.world
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But it’s Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.

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They are germanic languages after all. There are many words you’ll find in German and e.g. Norwegian, especially if you overlook slight spelling differences (endings, v or f, s or z,… )

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