[Sca-cooks] waffles/holhippen

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>I tend to pay more attention to the pronunciation than the spelling.
>Standardized spelling is a modern artifact of language standardization that
>accompanies the concept of standing armies.

Undoubtedly, but you have to find the word first.

>I also use a fairly expensive
>Cassell's dictionary that gives a lot of usage information.  I'm still
>looking for some Middle German dictionaries so I can be a little more
>accurate.

Which edition is that, and how expensive?  I've been using the Harper 
Collins unabridged German dictionary, checked out from the library, 
but want to get a good dictionary of my own.

>At the moment, I'm playing with some of the fish recipes from Wecker, so I'm
>a little more sensitive to the language than I am usually.

Please share?

Ranvaig