30 August 2006

From the "Learn Something New Every Day" Files

Courtesy Fellowes®: vocabulary words for how to talk about CD/DVD Binder Sheets™ in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, and Russian.

Made in China.



I don't believe I have seen, with the exception of Warsaw Falcon dill pickles, a package with Polish on it that was not actually exported from Poland itself. I also enjoy the Germans. Every other language evidently uses its own phrase for "jewel case," but, somewhat surprisingly, the compound-noun-lovin' Germans seem content to merely capitalize the English words.

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