Tag: dialect
So don’t talk like that! – Bavaria
The history of fan heaters is currently being examined in the Air Museum in Amberg. A reader wrote that he missed the Bavarian term of endearment for the fan heater,…
Nuremberg: Sparkasse responds to criticism of voice computer Anna – Bavaria
The word of the year 2023 was: crisis mode. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that there have been a lot of crises recently: the corona…
Eschawo, Seigra, Biang and Loam – Bavaria
The place names in Bavaria are a valuable cultural asset, but also a curiosity of the first order. In many areas they are still pronounced as they were in ancient…
Dialect: The Secret of Neialwaraad
Many Bavarian place names sound fundamentally different in the dialect. Behind it lies a cultural-historical treasure that is to be uncovered in a major project. source site
Telephone assistant at Sparkasse Nuremberg has problems with the Franconian dialect – Bavaria
Anyone who wants to speak to Sparkasse Nürnberg’s customer service and dials the corresponding telephone number will of course be greeted in Frangian. One would think. And at least when…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A cactus in the Potschamperl – Bavaria
The charming word Potschamperl (Potschamberl, Botschamperl) used to be used for night oats. A few days ago, this linguistic-historical pearl triggered various reactions among readers. On the Munich pages of…
Almost train accident at Griesen: “The duat is no longer anything” – Bavaria
For Bavaria, which it calls itself the “southeast investigation district,” the Federal Bureau of Railway Accident Investigation maintains its own regional office in Nuremberg. Despite this geographical proximity, the federal…
Scratch’s vocabulary: The horror of Maxi Pongratz – Bavaria
Horror A Time-Reporter from Hamburg visited the musician Maxi Pongratz in his apartment in Obergiesing and wrote a colorful portrait about him. Pongratz was a member of the disbanded band…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Beckenbauer in Nui York – Bavaria
The late football emperor Franz Beckenbauer probably received more honorable obituaries than he scored goals. Even his art of language, which was colored by the old Giesingen milieu, was thoroughly…
Munich: Learn Bavarian at the VHS – Munich
Steffi sits at a wooden table in the Luisen-Gymnasium classroom, with a pink pencil case in front of her. Next to it is a small blue and white flag with…