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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:58:48 +0100
From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch>
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Subject: Re: burgers and thunks ???
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Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > On 3 Jan 2001, at 18:17, j mckitrick wrote:
> >
> > > Is
> > > their any such thing as a 'burgermaster'?
> >
> > FWIW, I have heard the expression before.  But I don't have anymore
> > information.
> 
> "Burgermeister" is German for "mayor". IIRC, "Burger" by itself means
> "citizen".

Actually it's not "Burger" but "Bürger" or "Buerger" which sounds
quite different...

A "Burger" is what you get at BurgerKing or MacDonalds and a "Bürger"
has a Umlaut, a "ü" that sounds like... hmm... like Uebergeek...

-- 
Andre


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