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Korinthen are very small and dark raisins (named after Korinth , German for Corinth, the town in Greece that gave those special raisins th...

Word of the Month: Index It's time to up the ante and introduce a word consisting of three compounds. In the present case, they a...

Following my post on parallels I saw between Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Rumpelstiltskin , I dug a little deep...

Word of the Month: Index Wort means "word" and Klauberei is a noun derived form the verb klauben —to carefully pick over or so...

Word of the Month: Index Mutti is not a compound word, and there are perfectly fine equivalents in English. That is, the WoM for January ...

Word of the Month: Index In the present context, Geist means "mind" or "intellect." A Blitz is a lightning stroke, as...