List of Abbreviations - Introduction - 1 deutsch ''The language of the people'' - 2 Samstag ''The last day of the week'' - 3 Maut ''Road pricing'' - 4 Dult ''The people''s pleasure'' - 5 Jänner ''January brings the snow'' - 6 Heurige ''Prost!'' - 7 Kren ''For added spice'' - 8 fesch ''An English attraction'' - 9 Heimweh ''Home, sweet home'' - 10 Putsch ''An explosive Swiss German word'' - 11 Plattdeutsch ''The case of the unshifted consonants'' - 12 schnacken ''It''s good to talk'' - 13 dufte ''Beyond compare'' - 14 Gaul ''An American tale'' - 15 Kaiser ''The Boss'' - 16 Demut ''Humble beginnings'' - 17 Mauer ''To separate or protect?'' - 18 barmherzig ''The quality of the Good Samaritan'' - 19 Herr ''Titled people'' - 20 Mönch ''Life in seclusion'' - 21 Geist ''The spirit gives life'' - 22 werden ''A versatile verb'' - 23 Küche ''The centre of everything'' - 24 Gewissen ''Faith and a good conscience'' - 25 Wurst ''The core of German cuisine'' - 26 Minne ''All you need is love!'' - 27 Preis ''The French connection'' - 28 Haupt ''The chief'' - 29 wegen ''A shift of word class'' - 30 desto ''An antique'' - 31 Einfluss ''Influence from above'' - 32 Grenze ''The importance of boundaries'' - 33 Dietrich ''The name that opens every door'' - 34 drucken ''The importance of the printed word'' - 35 Lippe ''O Lord, Open my lips!'' - 36 kleingläubig ''Blue-sky thinking'' - 37 Konto ''The Italian connection'' - 38 Lärm ''A storm in a teacup'' - 39 See ''The difference grammatical genders can make!'' - 40 Schwiegermutter ''A successful compound'' - 41 Hängematte ''Rebranded'' - 42 dass ''Spelling and syntactic structure'' - 43 Tageleuchter ''An elusive word'' - 44 siezen ''Respect!'' - 45 Bett, Beet ''Two words for the price of one'' - 46 Tante ''Oh, my giddy aunt!'' - 47 während ''Providing syntactic variety'' - 48 obgleich ''A good merger'' - 49 Kartoffel ''The king of vegetables'' - 50 sentimental ''Made in Yorkshire'' - 51 Schriftsprache ''Developing standards'' - 52 Gedankenfreiheit ''A penny for your thoughts!'' - 53 Weltliteratur ''To the ends of the earth'' - 54 Pfiffikus ''Academic freedom'' - 55 Blamage ''Appearances can be deceptive'' -56 Ismus ''A productive suffix becomes a word'' - 57 Umlaut ''More than just two dots'' - 58 Frucht ''Bringing to fruition'' - 59 Märchen ''A fantasy world'' - 60 turnen ''Exercising the lexical muscles'' - 61 Tschüss! ''So long, fare thee well, pip-pip, cheerio!'' - 62 Donaudampfschifffsfahrtsgesellschaftskapit'n ''How far can compounding go?'' - 63 Fahrkarte A ticket to ride - 64 Unserdeutsch ''Voices from the past'' - 65 Bühnenaussprache ''Please speak clearly!'' - 66 Weckglas ''A jar with a name'' - 67 U-Boot ''Deep down under the sea'' - 68 röntgen ''Seeing through things'' - 69 Duden ''The man who became a book'' - 70 zwo ''Making a clear distinction'' - 71 Ampel ''A revived and relit word'' - 72 Autobahn ''The fast lane'' - 73 Gestapo ''Three words for brutality'' - 74 Pimpf ''Gone with the wind!'' - 75 mies ''A hidden origin'' - 76 Fernsehen ''Lexical creativity'' - 77 D-Mark ''A powerful currency'' - 78 Computer ''The importance of English'' - 79 Flutlicht ''Shine the spotlight on'' - 80 Heimatvertriebene ''A heavy heritage'' - 81 Supermarkt ''Morphological creativity'' - 82 Gastarbeiter ''The foundation of the economic miracle'' - 83 pingelig ''Eau de Cologne'' - 84 Volkskammer ''Parliamentary democracy East German style'' - 85 Kernkraft ''Controversial power'' - 86 Umwelt ''The world around us'' - 87 Bio-Welle ''A healthy development'' - 88 entsorgen ''A cover-up?'' - 89 Internationalismus ''The world is linguistic global village'' - 90 mailen ''Written communication in a digital world'' - 91 Handy ''A handy invention'' - 92 Trab(b)i ''An iconic car'' - 93 Besserwessi ''West is best?'' - 94 Euro ''A word is born'' - 95 Denglisch ''Good or bad?'' - 96 geil ''A semantic turn around'' - 97 twittern ''An ornithological word in the digital world'' - 98 Kiezdeutsch ''Amost anything goes'' - 99 krass ''What goes around, comes around'' - 100 Bundeskanzlerin ''First Lady Chancellor of Germany'' - 101 Gabenzaun ''The German language and the Covid pandemic'' - Linguistic Glossary - Bibliography Index.