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Originally Posted by mudshark

I suppose Deutschland really isn't much better, is it?

Well that is what I was referring to. We call it Duitsland, hence the mangling.

How, then, do you keep the Prussians sorted out from the Bayerischers? (Actually, the Bavarians probably tended to stay home with their beer and cheese, while the Prussians were the ones who came to your town uninvited, so yeah... )

I give up. What are Bayerischers? People from some other German state or something?

Edit: Come to think of it, Germans did a fair bit of mucking about in the rest of Europe, too, so if your family came from pretty much anywhere west of the Urals, there's a German influence in there somewhere or other.

I suppose I was mostly referring to the language, since Americans tend to come from pretty much all of Europe anyway... I wouldn't call the French Germanic, really. But if you're German, Dutch, British... Than yeah, all German.