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 This week's Word of the Week, Putsch (coup d'état, putsch, overthrow - isn't it interesting to see that there are two foreign words here in English?) has its origins in the Swiss dialect of German. It is used in French, English, Polish (pucz), Romanian (puci), Hungarian (puccs), Czech (puč), Italian (putsch) and perhaps even more languages that I am not aware of yet.
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There don't seem to be that many exciting German words in French, and of those I know, this week's featured word is definitely the most intriguing. But vasistas is apparently also used in Italian and Turkish. It is derived from the German Was ist das? (What's that?) and designates a transom window or skylight. If you want to hear it sung by Bénabar, click here.
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