Thursday, December 22, 2005

Suck-what?

What strange words these Germans have. Today walking around the shops I was reminded of the word for change room. "Anprobe."
As in, "Excuse me, could you put these in the anprobe for me?"
Imagine walking through a store with your boyfriend, picking something up to try on and saying, "Honey, could you just wait a minute? I'm going to nip into the anprobe."
Last year my brother was delighted with the name of the hardware store near our apartment. "Sückfull." And this year before I left home, my mother instructed me to pick her up a specific size of candle for a Christmas decoration she bought last December. "I think I enventually found them at the suckfull," she said.

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