OT: Germanic Food (was: Expressing "that's how")

On Mar 24, 2005, at 4:12 AM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>   So wird Brei gekocht: ...
>   so is porridge cooked: ...
>   'This is how porridge is prepared: ...'
> **Henrik
_Brei_ (/braj/?) is 'porridge'?
Interesting...
In Yiddish, _matza brai_ is a (primarily Passover) food which is like
'french toast' made out of matza (unleavened bread) broken into small
pieces.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "quit it with the damn schwa already! i hate phonetics!"
      - my friend e
        (back when we took intro to linguistics together)

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