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One thing is for sure: Nowhere in the industrialized world would people put up with a system like the one in the US, and if they had one, th...

Pechvogel combines Pech (misfortune, bad luck) with Vogel (bird). The word denotes a person who has bad luck, like a soccer player who sc...

This word is in the language, but I like to talk about it anyway (see my first comment). It's composed of two Words: wandern (to hike, ...

Cool tips for hot days...

A reader posted a comment about the Crowley/Gates case, and I want to expand the topic somewhat...see my response. The thread now has drifte...

A reader asked about "Wetlands", which is a translation of the German novel Feuchtgebiete , a bestseller in Germany when I was the...

Here's another something+ zwang word without exact English equivalent that I find useful. It's composed of Sach , short for Sache ...