SC - meaning of Dutch words
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Tue Apr 4 18:19:44 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/4/00 7:56:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Seton1355 at aol.com
writes:
> Meelsuiker: meel is another word for flour and suiker means sugar. So maybe
> it has something to do with sugar that is added to flour, but this is a
> wild
> guess...
>
> Broodsuiker: brood is the Dutch name for bread and suiker is sugar. So if
> maybe this is the sugar that can be added in bread.
Could either of these two terms refer to "loaf sugar"?? Sometimes (although
I am no translater) things get mixed up when they are translated from one
language to another. To wit: The German phrase for what we Americans know
as a Bus Stop is translated as "Speaking Stopping Place" Those crazy
Germans....
Balthazar of Blackmoor
(who, it just so happens, is a little bit Germanic, himself)
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