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At 12:22 am +0100 18/11/97, J Wunsch wrote:
>since you Americans have borrowed quite a number or German
>words, like "kaput" (although misspelled, we spell it with a
>double-t), "fahrvergnugen" (also misspelled since you don't have
>umlauts, nor could you speak them anyway ;), or the worst of the words
>German exported into any language, "blitzkrieg".

Oh, I think you underestimate this Jörge. How about "Hamburger" or
"Frankfurter"?

Even JFK described himself as "ein Berliner" which I understand is a kind
of do'nut :). Now if he'd been "Berlinerisch" the cold war may have ended
even sooner <grin>

Regards

Robin.