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It doesn't have to be recent English loan words for German dialects to make things weird. http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/ http://www.atlas-a
by adimitrov 8y ago
It doesn't have to be recent English loan words for German dialects to make things weird.
http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/ http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-5/f15a-f/
(fyi: Butter is a loanword from Greek. I've heard "das Butter" as well.)
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