Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:42:31 -0600, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> wrote:

>From:    "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...>
>> > "quite commonly used in English"?  Not in the United States.
>> > I just turned fifty years old, and I've never run across this word
>> > before.
>>
>> Perhaps not that common on the other side of the big pond, but it's very
>> common here in Europe. Pretty much all translations of the European
>> languages use the word "champignon" - in Norwegian, it's spelled
>> "sjampingjong", and only Italian uses "funghi pataioli".
>
>Pascal, I think we've already determined that in fact the word is
>not common in Great Britain, either, based on Ray's comments and
>my googling statistics. In fact, I just checked google.co.uk, just
>to make sure google.com wasn't giving me skewed numbers, and it
>agreed entirely with the earlier search, providing only 11.3k hits for
>champignon on English language pages in the UK.
"Only"? I certainly wouldn't call over 11k hits "only". Now if it were only
a few hundred hits, that would surely be rare, but with over 11k hits its at
least somewhat common, even if some people apparently haven't heard of it
yet. Well, now you have, and you can add it to your repertoire (oh damn, not
another nasty French word - hope you guys can deal with it. My English
dictionary does list it though.)

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Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Intergermansk: http://www.choton.org/ig/
Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/

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