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OP I was looking up origin of "Galgenhumor" and found this site which has quite a few German
words often seen in English text.http://www.etymologie.info/et/etgerman.html
Galgenhumor is gallow humor. Abe Lincoln told a story about crowd blocking way of carriage
taking condemned man to place of execution. The prisoner put his head out of the window
of the carriage, and yelled: "Don't hurry folks, there won't be any show until I get there."
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted German loan word site wwh 12/02/02 06:41 PM
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