Monday, August 1, 2011

Bulletin Board

What was that Bulletin Board category (in the Pioneer Press) where people described encountering the same new word two times right together?

Swabia: (Swey-bee-uh) A historical region of southwest Germany that originally included parts of present-day France and Switzerland.
In the book I'm currently reading, Father Dietrich (a 14th century priest) is marveling at the Swabian imagination. (Little does he know that he's about to encounter all manner of sci-fi craziness.)

In my kitchen, the spatzle I purchased from Aldi are labeled as Swabian egg noodles.

You may thank me for your (probably) worthless bit of trivia for the day.

1 comment:

Thérèse said...

I think it was "The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon".