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Muttley 24 Jan 8:50am, 24 Jan 2025 3,737 posts	Quote Pin Muttley If you like a word of the day (in English), sign up to Susie Dent on Twitter or Bluesky. Always entertaining and often gently subversive.
HazelnutCH 24 Jan 12:27pm, 24 Jan 2025 552 posts	Quote Pin HazelnutCH Back to German for me today: Maultaschen - mouth bags... Swabian ravioli basically. en.wikipedia.org I am having some for dinner.
MudMeanderer 25 Jan 7:53am, 25 Jan 2025 2,699 posts	Quote Pin MudMeanderer I've just discovered the Dutch for baseball is honkbal (honk apparently being a term for home). I think I like that name more.
JamieKai chameleon 25 Jan 8:24am, 25 Jan 2025 20,066 posts	Quote Pin JamieKai chameleon Baseball as played by geese? Love it, love everything about it
Garfield 26 Jan 3:28pm, 26 Jan 2025 18,335 posts	Quote Pin Garfield @HazelnutCH fou is half right...it's male version of crazy. Folle is the female word for crazy!
HazelnutCH 27 Jan 8:29am, 27 Jan 2025 559 posts	Quote Pin HazelnutCH @Garfield : yep - fou sounds better than folle somehow though..
Garfield 27 Jan 9:15am, 27 Jan 2025 18,337 posts	Quote Pin Garfield It's certainly the better known version!
NDWDave 27 Jan 10:53am, 27 Jan 2025 20,707 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave en.wikipedia.org aka "The Grand Raid de la Réunion, also called La diagonale des fous (The Bishops'/Madmen's Diagonal) is a mountain ultramarathon race"
jennywren 27 Jan 12:24pm, 27 Jan 2025 17,972 posts	Quote Pin jennywren Volleyball in Welsh is pel-foli which has a nice ring to it