An Academic Blog Duo
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 […]
Here’s where I keep a list of words to harvest later. If you have any dialect word suggestions, please leave a comment! herummurksen
Many of the dialect words I encounter are in printed. Though I interact with dialect speakers fairly frequently, there’s an element of on-the-spot communication that keeps me from remembering new words that might sprout up in the conversation. Sometimes I can figure out the meaning from context while I might be lost at other times […]
K-a-j-o-n. This word does not look German to me. It has a flair that hints at an origin not in the Germanic family. How did it end up in the language? What’s it doing? A windy path will lead us to an answer connected to human anatomy. Walk with me! My first encounter (as best […]