[from WDJ, March 3, 1998]
>> Welcome to the Word Lover's Cafe, where studying words is a *labor* of
>> love.
>>
>> Correction: One reader kindly pointed out that I'm no Wunderkind when
>> it comes to German--I erroneously reported that "kinder" means "child,"
>> when in fact it means "children" ("kind," of course, is the singular
>> form).
[from WDJ, March 2, 1998
>> -Side Dishes: It doesn't take a Wunderkind to deduce that Kinderfeind-
>> lichkeit comes from German. *Kinder*, of course, means "child," as
>> in *kinderfeind*, "a child-hater," *kindergarten*, "literally,
>> `children's garden,' a child's first year of school," and the
>> occasionally-used *kinderspiel*, "a dramatic piece performed by
>> children."
I'm sure that everyone spotted this! (And, of course, I did not.)
krumm
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