I'm used to Kanten, which is claimed to be common in Northern Germany. My family is not from northern Germany at all.linguoboy wrote:Yeah, there's a link to an earlier article on that from the "Knäppchen, Knäuschen und Knörzchen" article I linked to.Guitarplayer wrote:The word for the rest of an apple is also One of Those Words in German, AFAIK.
FWIW, where I was in the Southwest, the word is Knäusle.Guitarplayer wrote:For the end piece of bread I'm familiar with Knust, Kanten, Knöppchen.
That apple-thing is a Krotzen for me, or even more dialectal, an Appelkrotze.
How is this apple-thing called in english, by the way?