An Academic Blog Duo
Sloe to the finish line… Caveat lector—the spelling in the blog title belies a non-native German speaker’s meager approximation of two terms encountered in travels through Carinthia (Austria). Lo, in the Jauntal did I find two fruits referred to with these terms, both of which referenced dark-skinned (reddish-purple and bluish-purple), fairly small stone fruits. To […]
Food offers a bountiful table from which to dine when it comes to linguistics and etymology. A name that has long puzzled me is Tamerl, one which I’ve only encounted while dining at the Most & Weinschenke Tamerl in Griffen, and this is a seldom, but cherished, occurrence. My first, and clearly wrong, thought was […]
It’s always a pleasure to have a dialect word that properly belongs in a garden, and this one definitely does. I think the written form probably has an <ö> but is pronounced with an unrounded vowel, hence the <e> in “Merdlan.” I had no idea what this way when I heard first it (on April […]