Tag: Scratch’s vocabulary
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ösis have a knocker, Piefkes have a hit – Bavaria
The writer Dana von Suffrin mentioned in an interview with the SZ that she didn’t know anyone “who didn’t get a real beating from their family.” Sigi Zimmerschied also uses…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A dog for Heidi Klum – Bavaria
The fine country castle Gödöllö rises near Budapest. When you enter the former chambers of Empress Sisi, your gaze inevitably falls on the purple wallpaper on the walls, the color…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ihra be Bua – Bavaria
The gender debate has the potential to get on your nerves. Otherwise you don’t have to worry. At least in this context it comes to mind that the gender assignment…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Mistaken Winnetou films
In the cheap Westerns from the 1960s, the plots of the Karl May novels were often completely changed and messed up. In Bavarian there is a special word for this…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…