RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 10, 2016 at 3:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2016 at 3:50 am by Alex K.)
(August 10, 2016 at 3:38 am)Alex K Wrote: Exactly, they changed Drumpf to Trump whilst still in Ger.
Incidentally, the German word Drumpf or, in modern spelling, Trumpf, in English means "trump" as in the card game. In our local dialect, Trumpf is often pronounced Trump, i.e. ends up sounding more like the English pronunciation of the word (apart from the vovel u which sounds a bit different). That's probably not a coincidence but due to he fact that southern German dialects did not participate in some of the pronunciation shifts that led up to modern standard German, and therefore sound more like English in some instances.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
