Miraclewhip

My linguistic juices are really flowing today, so I present to you the second literal epiphany in 24 hours: “Miraclewhip”! Growing up in a German household I always asked for “Majonaise”, or if I used the brand name “Miraclewhip”. Only that it always sounded like “Mi-ra-kell-wipp”. Well, it took me 25 years to find out [...]

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who wants to glue over bills, anyway?

If you can’t read the bill: “Das Bekleben von Plakaten ist verboten!”, meaning “to glue something onto bills is prohibited”. Who knows what the bill should have read? I’ll give you little gold stars

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