Tag: dialect
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Hupfhaxerte Pedestrians – Bavaria
A city councilor from Vienna caused a stir because in a message she wrote pedestrians rather than pedestrians. The tabloid press became alarmed: “The city of Vienna is abolishing the…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Your pig, you’ll never see her – Bavaria
When a man is said to be a Sissian, it sounds ambiguous, but it means nothing other than: He likes sweet things. Said in Borussian: He is a sweet tooth.…
Scratcher’s words: Abfent and Aungglasl – Bavaria
Advent is actually a time associated with beautiful memories of snowy landscapes, baking cookies and the glow of candles. It’s just a shame that the commercial and secular Advent magic…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Kasperlgwand and robber civilian – Bavaria
Irmgard and Wilhelm Ostermeier from Landshut-Achdorf celebrated the rare wedding of grace. That means they have been married for 70 years. The Landshut newspaper honored the happy couple with a…
Kaffts Radi: New books shed light on the language varieties in Bavaria. – Bavaria
A few weeks ago, Elsa Huber was buried in a Munich cemetery. She lived to be almost 100 years old and was one of the last guard of city women…
Meichela is Upper Franconian word of the year 2023 – Bavaria
It was almost exactly nine years ago that so-called patriotic Europeans met on German streets for the first time to warn against what they saw as the threat of Islamization…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A Windsheimer for the cigarette smoker – Bavaria
Windsheimer The Nuremberg journalist Klaus Schamberger (81) has made a name for himself as a columnist and has written more than 20 books. The most recent work is a memoir…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Even our great-grandfathers wore baggy pants – Bavaria
The Regensburg teacher Ludwig Zehetner received the Waldschmidt Prize on Sunday. The Waldschmidt Association Eschlkam honored Zehetner’s outstanding expertise and research on the dialectology of Bavarian. “Collecting words is my…
The Iberl stage in downtown Munich is unique – Munich
Talent factory, original folk theater, family: The Iberl stage in the city center is unique in the Munich theater landscape. Its founder Georg Maier died three years ago – how…
Bavaria: The dialect is scorned at school – wrongly – Bavaria
In the past, if you ordered a cold cut from the butcher, the saleswoman would give you “a mess for a fiver.” When the new school year began on Tuesday,…