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My mother used to have a great book entitled "How to Win a Pullet Surprise."
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Dear Hyla: That was not a book, it was a recipe.
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"How to Win a Pullet Surprise."
Or was it another Mondegreen?
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"Be quiet and eat your mondegreens, Bill!" 
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I don't eat greens only on Monday, but every day of the week.
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I tried to post something in there, too. Twice. they never came up. Since this was just after I had signed up, and had not seen how many more posts there were, I foolishly thought that Anu The Great reviewed each post personally.
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Webster's online give the etymology of "window" thus: Middle English windowe, from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr wind (akin to Old English wind) + auga eye; akin to Old English Eage eye --
This oughta bring us to "eagle" but I thought I'd try a different stretch. Many of the houses in Southern Germany and Northern Switzerland have enchanting windows formed of low arches rising from the slope of the roof. I never learned what they were called, but I always loved them. A Platt speaking student did tell me, though, that "window" came from from the German "wind au" or "wind eye." Okay, so it's really Norse or Middle English. It sounds like German to me. It would follow, then, that the windows I loved were Dachauge, "roof eyes." From there it's a hop, skip and a jump to Dachau. And from there, to Auschwitz, "eye sweat," less than fitting, but not altogether off.
A pro po "stretch," the Yiddish is "quetch" to squeeze or compress. A question of which direction you read, I guess.
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Websters online gives the etymology of "quark" as "coined by Murray Gell-Mann"
"Quark" is what the German's call a fresh cheese that resembles guano. Colloquially, "Quark" means "nonesense." Unnamed sources tell me its usage in physics originates in Joyce's Ulysses. Of man, bird, and droppings, "Two quarks for Mr. Marks." The essence of matter is birdsh_t.
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"Many of the houses in Southern Germany and Northern Switzerland have enchanting windows formed of low arches rising from the slope of the roof. I never learned what they were called, but I always loved them."
I can't help you with the German, but in English-speaking architectural circles, those windows are eyebrow dormers.
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