Tag: #FOWC

Raise your wessel!

Even Germans who speak English vell, often get the w sound wrong and pronounce it like a “v”. Especially after drinking some vine. Ve just accept it just as ve tolerate English speakers struggling with “ö” and “ü”. However, the really funny thing is that many Germans who manage the “w” quite well, will overcompensate and call a tankard or glass or stein a “wessel”. Particularly, after drinking some wampire or wanilla cocktails.

FOWC with Fandango: Vessel

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Roach

Well, 5 (letters) out of 8 is not bad.

Children’s Easter chocolate in Germany, it’s actually a May beetle or chafer. But since an American friend screeched “Cockroach, it’s a chocoolate cockroach!” we call it that, too. And it was my first thought when I saw the prompt. And sometimes, the first thought is not the worst.

FOWC with Fandango: Encroach

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