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Word of the Week: GUGULUF

19/5/2014

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Although I'm still enjoying the delights of Italian cuisine, today's example is a Romanian one. A Gugelhupf, Guglhupf or Gugelhopf  is a kind of Bundt cake, known in Romanian as guguluf. The cake has made its way into the ovens of many different countries, taking its name with it. This resulted in a dizzying array of spellings: in France alone, it's known as kouglof, kougelhof, kugelhof, kugelopf, kougelhopf, kugelhopf or even kouglouf. In Hungary it's kuglóf, in Croatia kuglof. The cake is also known in Serbia, Macedonia and Russia (куглоф/"kuglof"). 

The image is from www.cronicadeiasi.ro, most of the varieties of Gugelhupf were found on Wikipedia.
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Word of the Week: ŠLAGBAUM - ШЛАГБАУМ

23/9/2013

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This week, another one of my Russian favorites: Schlagbaum (boom barrier) became шлагбаум in Russian, keeping both its meaning and the original German pronunciation (albeit with a Russian tinge), except that the stress is on the second rather than the first syllable in Russian. 

From my colleague Ramona Binder I learned that the Romanians also use this term - in the form of schlagbaumi.

The image is from www.parktime-pro.ru.
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Word of the Week: PUTSCH

16/9/2013

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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.

The picture is from www.charles-de-gaulle.org.
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