The German Language

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I didn't know that! Nicht is still pronounced "nit" in my palatinate home dialect.

I don't doubt that. But that's dialect. Where I live, it's pronounced "net" when you don't try to keep up appearances. But "nit" was, at some very long time, the official version. At least in the South.

On another thought, proverbs arer basically the same in English as well as in German. Every German proverb has it's equivalent in the english language and vice versa.