Ersatz vocabulary - borrowing from German (RoPeCast #003)
Channel: RoPeCast
Date: 2016-02-05

It is well known that German (like many other languages) has borrowed words from English. Less well known is the fact that words have also travelled in the opposite direction, with sometimes surprising results.

See this list at Wikipedia for some more instances and examples of German expressions in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_German_expressions_in_English

Originally published 16th Oct 2008

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